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  • Other interesting sources are Ian Purdie's project page (I used to play around with amateur radio telescopes and Ian has some simple ideas).

    hacks 2010

  • And whether it was that this time, knowing that it really was Monday morning, Purdie threw with easier conscience and consequently with surer aim, or to what other cause who may say, but certain it is that the man and the boy, soaked to the skin and chilled to the marrow, triumphantly bore home that morning to the mill, where Purdie's father then lived, a most monstrous heavy fish.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • [52] For the fine original air, see Purdie's "Border Garland."

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • But as he lay awake, unable to close an eye, Purdie's courage crept back to him, and again he resolved that have that fish he would, muckle black de'il or no.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • Purdie's Islands, after the Assistant-surgeon of the Investigator.

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

  • Purdie's Islands, after the Assistant-surgeon of the Investigator.

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903

  • Purdie's hotel and Sussex Square, and he had passed it on his way to

    The Orange-Yellow Diamond 1899

  • Purdie's keen sense of smell immediately noted the prevalent atmosphere of drugs and chemicals.

    The Orange-Yellow Diamond 1899

  • Five minutes after Ayscough had gone away with Dr. Mirandolet the hotel servant who had summoned him from Purdie's sitting-room knocked at the door for the second time and put a somewhat mystified face inside.

    The Orange-Yellow Diamond 1899

  • But to Purdie's disappointment, the American shook his head.

    The Orange-Yellow Diamond 1899

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