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burgeon .
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Question 4 - Out of touch if they believe tax burgen is low.
Archive 2008-04-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Question 4 - Out of touch if they believe tax burgen is low.
PMQs 02 April 2008 Not a sheep 2008
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BEHAR: Well, you don ` t know if it ` s burgen or burgen sometimes.
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I have rased and cut off this thy haire, which I have dressed with myne owne hands, and made to glitter like gold, and when I have clipped thy wings, which I my selfe have caused to burgen, then shall I thinke to have revenged my selfe sufficiently upon thee for the injury which thou hast done.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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A Mandamus was direded bal/ivis, burgen/tous % tecum - Variance fe -
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After that I had well rubbed every part and member of my body, I hovered with myne armes, and moved my selfe, looking still when I should bee changed into a Bird as Pamphiles was, and behold neither feathers nor appearance of feathers did burgen out, but verily my haire did turne in ruggednesse, and my tender skin waxed tough and hard, my fingers and toes losing the number of five, changed into hoofes, and out of myne arse grew
The Golden Asse 1566
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(returning againe) brought in a tall young man (as he promised) to whom none of the residue might bee compared, for hee was higher then they by the head, and of more bignesse in body, his beard began to burgen, but hee was poorely apparelled, insomuch that you might see all his belly naked.
The Golden Asse 1566
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Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mary Steen burgen, Jena Malone, Hayden Christensen
Medindia Health News 2009
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Developers Often Resent DBAs I would like to buy a Dam-burgen!
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"By this bringer, my servant", he writes, "I send you Relicks: First, two flowers wraped in white and black sarsnet, that on Christen Mass Even, hora ipsa qua Christus natus fuerat, will spring and burgen and bare blossoms.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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