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I hope this campaign does not focus on why, whom and when to reject pastors, instead focus on the real issues for the American people: Economy, Energy crisis and War. mike coard
McCain rejects endorsement of a second controversial pastor 2008
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August 2, 2009 at 6:39 am itteh haz gud II fur teh color coard kordi co orniz matchings.
Your Queen - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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May 18, 2009 at 12:36 am lubblee, jack! ai had a pet ferrett that liked to chew on old fashun fone coard, an ai didn own mai fone tihs reelee old days! sew aftur teh sekkund wun borked, ai kept fone in an old milk crate. mai frens thot wuz funnee that fone in crate, nawt ferrett!
itteh bitteh kitteh committeh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Awllso habz rowndz andz rowndz strrrrrrretchee coard datz maydz ubz sawfft, thikk Pisskettee!
itteh bitteh kitteh committeh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Den fyndz itz lawng blakk Pissketti coard andz stawpz itz stawp Tawlkeengz
I can has… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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A butifull morning, wind from the West, river falling a little, we set out at an early hour and proceed on in the usial way by the assistance of the coard principally, but little use of the oars & less with the poles as the bottoms are muddey, we see no great bodies of pure sand the bars & points are rich mud mixed with fine sand.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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In wch grounds we thinke (the woodes being muche differing in qualitie, by an equall proportion) there maie be raised for everie acre 30 coard of woode; reserving sufficient staddells according to the state, wch, according to the measure of the said grounds, amounted unto the number of 15,600 cordes of woode.
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846
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Uppon conference with divers in the contrie, wee finde that such a quantitie of woode is not suddainly to be vented in anie other sorte then to the iron workes, wch causeth either the cheapnes or dearnes of the same; the contrie not vallewing the said woodes uppon the stem above XIIIID the coard, although to the iron workes it may be vallued at IIs VId the coard.
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846
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Larry and she, in short, began to coort, and were pulling a coard together for as good as five or six years.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Their behaviour made me neverthelesse cheerfull, or att least of a smiling countenance, and constraine my aversion and feare to an assurance, which proved not ill to my thinking; ffor the young men tooke delight in combing my head, greasing and powdering out a kinde of redd powder, then tying my haire with a redd string of leather like to a coard, which caused my haire to grow longer in a short time.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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