Ples

My grandmother, and my mother were both freed like this, but what they called 'nigger traders' captured them, and two or three others, and they took them just like they would animals, and sold them, that was how 'Ples' Holbert got my mother.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kansas Narratives Work Projects Administration

"I'm from this town and, since it is the Ples Spisiakov ball, I should be able to go."

Small Slovak Town Is Belle of the Ball Leos Rousek 2012

Alenka Kandrova A professional dance group staged the opening waltz at the Ples Spisiakov ball, which translates as 'the ball of the people of Spis.'

Dancing With Slovak Stars 2012

About 330 people danced at the 2012 Ples Spisiakov Ball.

Dancing With Slovak Stars 2012

Last weekend, former prime ministers of Slovakia and the neighboring Czech Republic toasted a mostly out-of-town crowd of about 330 people, many of whom made a four-hour drive from Bratislava, for the yearly Ples Spisiakov ball.

Small Slovak Town Is Belle of the Ball Leos Rousek 2012

No one else has much of a theory why Ples Spisiakov, which translates as "the ball of the people of Spis," has mushroomed into one of the country's top social events.

Small Slovak Town Is Belle of the Ball Leos Rousek 2012

Ples yt you to wete that at the makyng of thys byll my brodyr & I & all our felawshep wer in good helle, blyssyd be God.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

Ples yt you to wete that at the makyng of thys byll my brodyr & I & all our felawshep wer in good helle, blyssyd be God.

Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908

You know, if some of the great fossil finds, particularly from Southern Africa, had been left with attaching matrix, things like the Taung Child and Ms. Ples, we'd be able to date them today.

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The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706