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For lispias harth a burm in eye but whem it bames fire norone screeneth.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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As a web developer and new media instructor, this blurring of web-based games with TCP/IP-based bames has always disturbed me.
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"Och! the bright bames of heaven on ye every day! and kindly welcome, my lady -- and won't ye step in and rest -- it's powerful hot, and a beautiful summer, sure -- the Lord be praised!"
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 Various
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'Och! the bright bames of heaven on ye every day! and kindly welcome, my lady; and won't ye step in and rest -- its powerful hot, and a beautiful summer, sure, -- the Lord be praised!'
Anecdotes for Boys Harvey Newcomb 1833
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Dan's Mary was not one of these scholars, but she found another page to admire, saying that the circles "drew in and out of aich other like a lot of soap-bubbles, had an oncommon tasty look, and so had all them weeny corners, wid the long bames between, the moral of a chain-harrow, you couldn't mistake it.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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