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  • Kimbrough Oller suggests that "they're communicating about perhaps the fun of having a conversation," which is a really meta concept for 17-month-olds to be exploring — or 17-year-olds, for that matter.

    Babies Act Like Babies, Create Viral Sensation 2011

  • So, not wishing Odin to drive public religion into exile, they exiled him and put one Oller

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • The story of Woden's being banished for misbehaviour, and especially for sorcery and for having worn woman's attire to trick Wrinda, his replacement by "Wuldor" ( "Oller"), a high priest who assumed Woden's name and flourished for ten years, but was ultimately expelled by the returning Woden, and killed by the Danes in Sweden, is in the same style.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • Thus Oller was driven out from Byzantium by Odin and retired into

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • For nearly ten years Oller held the presidency of the divine senate; but at last the gods pitied the horrible exile of

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • Offended at his misdeeds, the other gods outlawed and exiled him, but set up in his place a substitute, Oller by name, a cunning wizard, to whom they accorded the symbols both of royalty and of godhead.

    Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King. § 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term 1922

  • Offended at his misdeeds, the other gods outlawed and exiled him, but set up in his place a substitute, Oller by name, a cunning wizard, to whom they accorded the symbols both of royalty and of godhead.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • "Yet you pass it every day on your way to the 'Oller -- it lays just be'ind Simon's oast-'ouse, as James' isself will tell 'ee."

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • "Very well then!" said the Pedler, "let's talk o 'summ'at else; still livin' in the 'Oller, I suppose?"

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • 'Wheer?' says John, 'wheer should I see un but in that theer ghashly' Oller.

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

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