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  • But Benjamin Nab isn't Ren's brother - he's a con man who figures a disabled child will add that extra something to his schemes.

    40. The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti 2009

  • But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren’s long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope.

    The Good Thief: Summary and book reviews of The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti. 2008

  • When Benjamin Nab arrives, claiming to be Ren’s long-lost brother, he transforms this mark of misfortune into a lucrative scam, whisking Ren into the world of scenic New England farmland and towns populated by trusting villagers: a prime location for a gritty underbelly of grave robbing and other dark trades.

    The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti: Questions 2008

  • 'The Spit and the Nab are the gates of the promise,

    Songs Of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898

  • 'The Spit and the Nab are the gates of the promise,

    Songs of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898

  • 'The Spit and the Nab are the gates of the promise,

    Songs of Action Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Before it, at some distance across the valley, stretches a high screen of bold and picturesque mountains; behind, it is overtowered by a precipitous hill, called Nab-scar; but to the left, you look down over the broad waters of

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Various 1885

  • "Nab:" He rubbed his hands together, drank more coffee, and got up for a refill.

    Blood Test Kellerman, Jonathan 1986

  • Mr. M'Nab's sermons were calculated to arouse alarm and concern -- or, in the case of the justified, stern triumph -- in the human breast.

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

  • At the sound of my voice there was a sharp little bark from behind, such as Nab alone could give when I had an exceptionally delicate morsel for him.

    The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

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