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  • Note to Makebelieve Militia. .do not let the Col. write your homemade bomb instructions, no wait, nevermind.

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  • I don't know about the specifics of Makebelieve land, but I would probably be opposed to such a ban.

    Washington State Political Report 2004

  • I don't know about the specifics of Makebelieve land, but I would probably be opposed to such a ban.

    Archive 2004-12-12 2004

  • Mary Makebelieve loved her mother very dearly, and her mother returned her affection with an overwhelming passion that sometimes surged into physically painful caresses.

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • Mary Makebelieve scarcely dared lift her glance to his face.

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • Mary Makebelieve was burning to tell some one of her adventure during the day, but although she had never before kept a secret from her mother she was unable to tell her this one.

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • The first to whom she applied was the laboring man's wife in the next room; she was a vast woman with six children and a laugh like the rolling of a great wind, and when Mary Makebelieve advanced her request she shook six children off her like toys and came out on the landing.

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • She had a hairy chin, said Mrs. Makebelieve: she had buck teeth and a solid smile, and was given to telling people who knew their business how things ought to be done.

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • Mary Makebelieve, apropos of nothing, asked her mother did she ever know a girl who got married to a policeman, and did she think that policemen were good men?

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

  • When her mother hugged her for any length of time she soon wept, rocking herself and her daughter to and fro, and her clutch became then so frantic that poor Mary Makebelieve found it difficult to draw her breath; but she would not for the world have disturbed the career of her mother's love.

    Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916

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