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  • Who needs Valleywags, when you can get the real UK music story: I'll do my hair a-while, and even make my bed.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • However, after a-while, he came to himself and wept and buffeted his face and rent his raiment and went about the house clean distraught, reciting these two couplets,100

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Who needs Valleywags, when you can get the real UK music story: I'll do my hair a-while, and even make my bed.

    997 Turbo on Snow, Guardian's Doherty on Prison Ben Barren 2006

  • Luxembourg-Garden, we sate down on a Bench, a-while to rest ourselves: Where, regarding the well-built House of Luxembourg, wherein lived the Princess Madamoiselle de Monpensier, we began to reflect on the Folly of that Lady, for adhering to the Rebels in the

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Mr Simpson was sanguine in his hopes for a-while, the wind being fair for us.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.

    Preface to Shakespeare 2004

  • Then hurling off her light wearing garment (because she came prepared for the purpose) shee stept into the bathe to him, and, not permitting the Slaves a-while to come neere, none but her selfe must now lave his body, with

    The Decameron 2004

  • Ye who have learned who Eros is, — O listen yet a-while.

    Collected Poems 2003

  • Watched him a-while, and then stole back sadly and wearily.

    Collected Poems 2003

  • The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.

    Preface to Shakespeare 1969

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