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  • HARPER: It's called -- my company is called Tivy and NASA -- which has as it's core mission education along with all its other work with space.

    CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2002 2002

  • _Two_ disguises seemed necessary toward these two purposes, and he adopted the two we have seen, one on the "hither side Tivy," the other on the "far side Tivy," which his coracle allowed him to cross at pleasure.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • Dried salmon and other fish also adorned others, pleasingly hinting of the general honesty and mutual confidence of the humble natives, poor as they were, for strangers were never thought of; the road, such as it was, merely mounting up to "the hill" (the lofty desert of sheepwalk) on one hand, and descending steeply to the river Tivy on the other.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • Then an accidental meeting with the young harper -- he recovering a book she had dropped into the Tivy out of her hand, from having fallen asleep through exertion, and restoring it with a grace quite romance-hero like -- produced a new era, and new excitement -- that of the heart.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • Aged trees, green even to the trunks, luxuriant ivy enveloping them as well as the branches, stretched their huge arms down the declivity leading to the Tivy, the flashing of whose waters, through its rich fringe of underwood, caught the eye of any one standing on the ridge above.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • David, who was lately become known "on t'other side Tivy," by the name of _Nosdethiol Telynwr_, that is, "night-walking harper," was an idle romantic young man, almost grown out of youth, who had long lived away from Wales, where he had neither relative nor friend but one aged woman who had been his first nurse, he having been early left an orphan.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • This young man, though he may be old for what I know, never seeing him in my life -- you see, sir, we on this side of Tivy are like strangers to the Cardy men, t'other side -- _they_ are _Cardie's_, sure enow, _true_ ones, as the Saxon foreign folk do call us _all_ of this shire.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • Lady Minikin hates her husband, and flirts with colonel Tivy.

    Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

  • Freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel, who graduated early from Kerrville Tivy High, opened the eyes of the estimated 16,500 fans in attendance by completing 8 of 9 passes for 115 yards and two touchdowns.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Jonathan Perry scored 21 points to pace Tivy, which advanced to this weekend's Region IV tournament in San Antonio that includes Lake Travis.

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

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