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  • "But I always feel as if the Thornes were my relations."

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • Have I a right to call the Thornes of Ullathorne my cousins?’

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • Have I a right to call the Thornes of Ullathorne my cousins? "

    Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1848

  • "His Power'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes" by Marc Laidlaw, another Omni story from the '80s, impressed me at the time with the potential of alternate history.

    MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2) 2009

  • Putting all of the details together, Prof Thornes 'team traced Monet's position for his paintings of Charing Cross Bridge (now called Hungerford Bridge) to the balconies of rooms 610 and 611 on the sixth floor in 1900 and rooms 510 and 511 in 1901.

    Meteorologists track down Monet as he painted London bridges in smog science correspondent 2010

  • In June Spencer torched her own flat on Thornbury Road, Thornes, after a row with 76-year-old neighbour Margaret Ward.

    Trans woman imprisoned indefinitely ‘for the public’s protection’ 2008

  • To try to keep people like Ms. Brennan and the Thornes shopping locally, retailers in Ireland have been cutting prices.

    Irish Retailers Watch Shoppers Go North 2009

  • The referee then proceeds to make sensible observations about the need to carefully define terms citing Thornes and Stephenson 2001 as an example of how skill measures can be clearly defined.

    Bürger and "Skill" « Climate Audit 2007

  • The improbable figure of Thorne the Horn came galloping to my rescue, accompanied by all the other Thornes before him, plus all the chicken dinners I had metaphorically shoved down the waste-disposal unit, or failed to.

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • The improbable figure of Thorne the Horn came galloping to my rescue, accompanied by all the other Thornes before him, plus all the chicken dinners I had metaphorically shoved down the waste-disposal unit, or failed to.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

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