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I point out the incident of Dennis Shorthouse of Military Mattters, one fo the longest and most dedicated dealers and supporters, who was so incensed with the 295% rise in dealer costs that he made the Historicon - Extorticon T-shirts.
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Ryan Shorthouse of the Social Market Foundation says that the Tories did promise to keep Sure Start centres going: "The government should have ring-fenced the budget as the Conservatives had promised to do before the election."
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About five minutes before Shorthouse came into the general office, I think.
A Mind to Murder James, P. D. 1963
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But Shorthouse is outside the period in fiction in the same sort of way in which Francis Thompson is outside it in poetry.
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There are many other men, very nearly as great, on whom I might delight to linger: on Shorthouse, for instance, who in one way goes with
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The interest of Shorthouse is the interest which attaches to the blooming of a curious and exotic flower in a place where its presence is absolutely unaccountable; he probably will not maintain his hold upon the minds of a later generation, because there is no coherent system of thought in his book.
The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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After Shorthouse had once tasted the delights of publication and the pleasures of fame he wrote too much, and fiddled rather tediously upon
The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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It shows how very little surroundings and influences have to do with the growth of an artistic instinct, because in the case of Shorthouse it seems to have been a purely spontaneous product.
The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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It looks as if Shorthouse had just taken a pen and a piece of paper and had begun to write.
The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Of course one would not assign to Shorthouse a very high place in
The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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