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The other day they ishued each fello what they called Irun
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!" Edward Streeter 1933
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Contador alleges that a friend purchased steaks in Irun, a city near the Spanish-French border in Spain’s Basque Country, and brought them into France, where he later dined on them ahead of the surprise control that revealed traces of the banned drug in his system.
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Contador is defiant in claiming traces of the banned product came from contaminated steaks that were purchased in nearby Spain in the coastal town of Irun.
Alberto Contador says he may quit cycling if banned for doping 2010
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I'm very lucky that I now have two businesses which Irun very successfully.
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Now and then the tall chimney of one of those manufactories we had seen on the way from Irun invited belief in the march of industrial prosperity; but whether the Basque who took work in a mill or a foundry forfeited his nobility remained a part of the universal Basque secret.
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Even at Irun, where we arrived in Spain from Bayonne, there began at once to be temperamental differences which ought to have wrought against my weird misgivings of my whereabouts.
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This at least is mainly the trace that the scenery as far as Irun has left among my notes; and after Irun there is record of more and more corn.
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Irun in the extreme north to Algeciras in the extreme south of
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It was now raining outside, and we were glad to climb into our apartment without at all seeing what Irun was or was not like.
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But, when I got to Irun, on the Spanish frontier, (having determined to come through Spain in order to see the country), the custom-house officers demanded a duty nearly double the cost of the cloth in London, so that there was no alternative but to leave it in their possession.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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