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"I'm having a great time," he said Tuesday as he left a school in Skipwith, Va.
Obama Road Trip Highlights His Challenges Carol E. Lee 2011
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Captain Sutherland, of the ram Queen of the West, was married, a few days since, on board the gunboat Tylor, to Mrs. Harris, of Skipwith
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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_Long Pole_, blow a _Horn_ fantasie through his nose without _Pain_, and then _Skipwith_ a live _Buck_ and two _Foxes_ -- concluding with a description of his late two _Miles Hunt_ in three _Woods_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 Various
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These windows were evidently fine, and indicate a connection with the parish of the ancient families Everingham, Skipwith, Deseyrt, Bec and
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Skipwith in Yorkshire, where the church underwent some alteration about the middle of the fourteenth century.
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This, then, was the model gentleman to whom Skipwith made over a share in the Drury Lane patent, and through whose efforts the rival companies were united in
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902
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[32.1] Malone supposes that Skipwith acquired his shares from the Killigrew family, but in the indenture by which he transferred his interest to Brett, it seems as if he had acquired part of it from Alexander Davenant, and the remainder by buying up shares of the original Adventurers.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889
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Miss Skipwith could afford to spend nothing upon the house she lived in; indeed she could barely afford the necessaries of life.
Vixen, Volume III. 1875
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Skipwith, looking from Roderick's frank eager face to Vixen's downcast eyelids and mantling blushes.
Vixen, Volume III. 1875
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Skipwith of theology, the other two of themselves and the smiling future, and such an innocent forest life as Rosalind and Orlando may have promised themselves, when they were deep in love, and the banished duke's daughter sighed for no wider kingdom than a shepherd's hut in the woodland, with the lover of her choice.
Vixen, Volume III. 1875
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