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  • MAD Magazine parodied that when a friend of Kersey's asks advice and Kersey suggests putting $20.00 worth quarter rolls in a sock.

    DEATH WISH and DEATH SENTENCE by Brian Garfield 2010

  • And Kersey's watersplash is great fun for the flash driver of a cream Austin Somerset.

    Fifty Not Out Peter Ashley 2008

  • Of course, Kersey's liberalism exists only so it can be corrected later.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • Of course, Kersey's liberalism exists only so it can be corrected later.

    Vigilantes Ed Gorman 2007

  • K. = Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_ (1708).

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • The present editor has added, in square brackets, explanations of all these words except about half-a-dozen which neither Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • The following glossary was compiled by Tyrwhitt before he had discovered Chatterton's use of Kersey's and Bailey's dictionaries

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Mr. Skeat's notes: in Kersey's dictionary occurs the word _gare_, defined as "cause."

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

  • Kersey's English dictionaries, composed his poems first in modern language, and then turned them into ancient spelling, and substituted here and there the old words in his glossary for their modern equivalents.

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • Bailey's and Kersey's English dictionaries, composed his poems first in modern language, and then turned them into ancient spelling, and substituted here and there the old words in his glossary for their modern equivalents.

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

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