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[Page 266] * Mr. Ransome is also known as a novelist, a translator of Remy de Gourmont, and a teller of Russian fairy stories.
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Mr. Ransome is an Englishman who has lived in Russia for a number of years and knows his ground well, he writes as an observer and not for or against any party in power, and that seems to me the only reasonable conduct for a reporter.
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A senior man called Ransome got up to defend the modern novel, and the debate at once became serious.
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904
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He founded a commune/recording studio called the Kalakuta Republic, complete with his own private nightclub, The Shrine, and Fela dropped his given middle name "Ransome," and replaced it with a Yoruba name "Anikulapo" (meaning "he who carries death in his pouch").
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He founded a commune/recording studio called the Kalakuta Republic, complete with his own private nightclub, The Shrine, and Fela dropped his given middle name "Ransome," and replaced it with a Yoruba name "Anikulapo" (meaning "he who carries death in his pouch").
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He founded a commune / recording studio called the Kalakuta Republic, complete with his own private nightclub, The Shrine, and Fela dropped his given middle name "Ransome," and replaced it with a Yoruba name "Anikulapo" (meaning "he who carries death in his pouch").
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"Ransome," I asked abruptly, "how long have I been on deck?
The Shadow Line 1917
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"Ransome," I asked abruptly, "how long have I been on deck?
The Shadow Line; a confession Joseph Conrad 1890
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Along with some other books on my table, I've been re-reading some of my favorite books in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome; I just finished Secret Water.
Question of the Day 2009
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She was hired by Joe Ransome Chevrolet, which by 1984, when she left the company, was the largest car dealership in Portland.
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