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  • Maureen Kincaid Speller is a reviewer and critic, as well as being a former administrator of the British Science Fiction Association and a former Clarke Award and Tiptree Award judge.

    MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel 2009

  • Mr. Speller, a rich planter, owning a place called Speller's Landing, was arrested and sent to Plymouth.

    Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy 1876

  • By 1947, Webster's "Speller" had reinforced both the English language and a biblical worldview by selling more than 70 million copies.

    Noah Webster and the Bee John A. Murray 2010

  • Mr. Webster's "Speller" was a work of less pretentions, perhaps, and yet it had an immense sale.

    Remarks Bill Nye 1873

  • The next word that Mr. Crawford gave out from the "Speller" was

    In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

  • Webster's "Speller," that was once so popular in country schools: ail, to be in trouble. ale, malt liquor. air, the atmosphere.

    In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

  • First-novelist Elizabeth Speller set "The Return of Captain John Emmett" in 1920 and gave a disaffected former officer from "the Great War" the task of uncovering what caused the suicide of a fellow serviceman and former friend.

    And Then There Were Ten Tom Nolan 2011

  • We can take questions, show video clips and the participants can interact with each other but without all the time constraints and costs involved, Speller says.

    Bett 2011 | Virtual learning 2011

  • Speller and his colleagues use only the basic features of Second Life, which include logging participants in, getting them to sit down and helping them to navigate around by steering the camera so they can look at the presentation.

    Bett 2011 | Virtual learning 2011

  • He speaks soothingly to me in Italian, smoothes my hair and drops a peppermint pinwheel onto the pages of my open Speller.

    Sister MaryAnne Kolton 2011

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