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SPRING'S FIRST DAY WAS A WARM SWEET SONG, a time of companionable silences and comfortably shared labor in Mahon O'Dere's coracle.
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"The Happy Family" someone called Mahon's force, and there was certainly never a more united company.
The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907
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"The VA does not always communicate in English," Mahon said with a husky chuckle.
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They had called Mahon "Boy" almost since he joined the force seven years before as a young man, packed with youthful vitality, frankness and ambition, and the nickname was dear to him.
The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan
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Anyone who is interested in the Tour de Tugaloo or the bicycling club can call Mahon at
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Anyone who is interested in the Tour de Tugaloo or the bicycling club can call Mahon at
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Through a series of literary essays, Mr. Tillinghast examines the works of contemporary Irish poets and playwrights such as Mahon, Flann O'Brien, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney, paying particular attention to the ways in which they have departed from their forebears '"preoccupation with their native country both as a nation and as a place."
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But this block by "Mahon" makes a record for the seniority fetish.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900
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As the boy Charles was on his way to M'Mahon's -- and this he mentioned to the family afterwards -- he was met, he said, by a gentleman dressed in rusty black, mounted upon a strong, coarse horse; and who, after looking at him with a good deal of surprise, said -- "What is your name, my fine fellow?" and on hearing it he asked him where he was going.
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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The circumstance of the message to M'Mahon's, however, was the cause of a scene which we could not possiby omit, in a work treating of this peculiar and most distressing crisis.
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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