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  • Legend has it that when King Charles II was fleeing from his enemies after the battle of Worcester in 1651 a royal subject called Jelf ferried him to freedom across the River Severn at Ashleworth.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • For now, "investors are right to be skeptical" that the yen's long rally is over, said Tomas Jelf , chief economist at London hedge-fund managers Prologue Capital.

    Some Still Sweet on the Yen Tom Lauricella 2012

  • So hats off to Jelf Employee Benefits, organisers of today's seminar at London Zoo.

    Hugh Muir's Diary 2011

  • And while the amount of purchases seems big, when compared with the amount of debt in Japan, "it's very small," Mr. Jelf said.

    Some Still Sweet on the Yen Tom Lauricella 2012

  • Mr. Jelf at Prologue cites several shortcomings in the Bank of Japan's latest move to pump money into the markets through bond purchases.

    Some Still Sweet on the Yen Tom Lauricella 2012

  • Doyle spoke extempore, made several mistakes, which were corrected by Jelf.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • Doyle spoke _extempore_, made several mistakes, which were corrected by Jelf.

    The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

  • Church of Rome because forsooth 'she yields,' says Newman in his Letter to Jelf, 'free scope to feelings of awe, mystery, tenderness, reverence, and devotedness;' while we have it on the authority of Tract 90, that the Church of England is 'in bondage, working in chains, and (tell it not in Dublin) teaching with the stammering lips of ambiguous formularies.'

    An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

  • Domestic servants too, he said, have manners; he instanced as magnificent specimens Turner, Lady Waldegrave's groom of the chambers, and Miss Alice Rothschild's Jelf.

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • The Tibbetts-Jelf Lamp was something new in motor lamps.

    Bones in London Edgar Wallace 1903

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