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  • The show continues to develop the smart cop/somewhat less smart cop byplay between Tim Kang's deadpan Cho and Owain Yeoman's more effusive Rigsby.

    Season finale frenzy: 'The Mentalist' 2009

  • And emergency personnel who did Yeoman's work responding to US Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River being recognized today.

    CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2009 2009

  • The unsavory characterization of the alchemist in medieval literature knows no better example than Chaucer's "Canon's Yeoman's Tale" (ca. 1390) while on an official level there were the decrees and statutes of Pope John XXII (1317) and Henry IV of England (1404) directed against those who attempted to multiply gold.

    Alchemy 1968

  • The unsavory characterization of the alche - mist in medieval literature knows no better example than Chaucer's “Canon's Yeoman's Tale” (ca. 1390) while on an official level there were the decrees and statutes of Pope John XXII (1317) and Henry IV of

    ALCHEMY ALLEN G. DEBUS 1968

  • _ = -- 'In "A Yeoman's Letters," Mr.P. T. Ross has written the liveliest book about the War which has yet appeared.

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • It is evident from the _Canon's Yeoman's Tale_ in Chaucer, that many of those who professed to turn the base metals into gold were held in bad repute as early as the 14th century.

    The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir

  • If any deficiency in the stores under his charge be discovered, or they are in bad order, the Ordnance Officer will report the same to the Commandant of the yard, who will order a survey, to ascertain the nature and extent of the deficiency, or injury, and whether either were caused by the Yeoman's negligence or fault.

    Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

  • Nothing better of this kind has yet appeared than "A Yeoman's Letters," by P.T. Ross ....

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • The P.M.O. asked a Yeomanry friend yesterday if he would like to go home or join his squadron, and the Yeoman's reply was he would like to rejoin his squadron -- at home.

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • If he wanted to get anything to eat that day he must go to Lawson's studio before he went out to luncheon, so he made his way along the Brompton Road to Yeoman's Row.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

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