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  • Yourself and Labour's Mr. Iain Gray question whether the word "absconsion" as used by the Justice Minister, Kenny MacAskill, was a proper word or not.

    Iain Gray's poor judgement over prison officers Jeff 2009

  • Ed Park has a delightful piece on Harry Stephen Keeler's mostly unsuccessful absconsion of Edna St. Vincent Millay's work for one of his characters.

    April 2007 2007

  • Ed Park has a delightful piece on Harry Stephen Keeler's mostly unsuccessful absconsion of Edna St. Vincent Millay's work for one of his characters.

    Sunday Hangovers 2007

  • Ed Park has a delightful piece on Harry Stephen Keeler's mostly unsuccessful absconsion of Edna St. Vincent Millay's work for one of his characters.

    Sunday Hangovers 2007

  • "See here, Jim, we got wise to this absconsion of yours, and we thought we'd jest bunch in.

    Colorado Jim George Goodchild

  • "Even had I not gone with you, I intended at the end of this term to take a three-months 'absconsion -- But besides, I shall not be neglecting my edification if I accompany you.

    The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

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