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  • John Macgowan, 'the Shaver', whose satirical pamphlet Priestcraft

    Letter 423 2009

  • He told James Macgowan of the Ottawa Citizen, I love literature.

    Jasper Fforde biography 2010

  • Duncan, she noticed, stood looking at Lady Macgowan just a little too long before he kissed her and whispered something which made her laugh, before moving away to join the rest of the company in a Highland reel, his feet and arms working rhythmically to the sound of the bagpipes played by a ghillie in Highland dress.

    The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996

  • Helen, halfway down the stairs, saw Lady Macgowan arrive and knew at once who she was and any hope that Duncan's love for her might have cooled over the years, vanished.

    The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996

  • Macgowan mentions that the child looked like wax, as though continually fed on lardaceous substances.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Macgowan says that parasitic monsters are manufactured in China by a similar process of transplantation.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Macgowan mentions that the child looked like wax, as though continually fed on lardaceous substances.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Macgowan says the traders kidnap a boy and skin him alive bit by bit, transplanting on the denuded surfaces the hide of a bear or dog.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Macgowan 9.221 says the traders kidnap a boy and skin him alive bit by bit, transplanting on the denuded surfaces the hide of a bear or dog.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Macgowan says that parasitic monsters are manufactured in China by a similar process of transplantation.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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