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According to the guys that designed the Guppie Multi-Tool, namely Launce Barber and Tom Stokes, this pocket tool was engineered so that everything included can be made ready for use in the shortest time possible, right out of the pocket.
Softpedia - Windows - All Florin Panaitescu 2010
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With her father and her aunt to keep up round her the atmosphere of home -- with Cousin Launcelot (more commonly known as "Launce") to carry out, if necessary, the medical treatment prescribed by superior authority on shore -- the lovely invalid embarked on her summer cruise, and sprang up into a new existence in the life-giving breezes of the sea.
Miss or Mrs? Wilkie Collins 1856
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The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom "the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon" has been attributed.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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He is contrasted to a boorish Launce, who in Dogberry-like fashion murders a Queen's good English by silly malapropisms.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom "the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon" has been attributed.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Members relished a soliloquy of Launce to his shoes, who spin his relatives as they bewail his depart for unfamiliar shoresin sharp contrariety to his dog Crab, who callously refuses to strew a tear (2.3).
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Members relished a soliloquy of Launce to his shoes, who spin his relatives as they bewail his depart for unfamiliar shoresin sharp contrariety to his dog Crab, who callously refuses to strew a tear (2.3).
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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He is contrasted to a boorish Launce, who in Dogberry-like fashion murders a Queen's good English by silly malapropisms.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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