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Chester Nimitz Jr., a man who had become accustomed in the service of his country to taking charge, left a meticulously organized file for his daughters labeled "when cwn dies."
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Let them just turn around and go back home and sweep up their cwn goddamn doorsteps and never try and help anyone again! '
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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The Welch believe in the apparition of certain spirits under the form of hunting dogs, which they call dogs of the sky (cwn wybir, or cwn aunwy:) they indicate the death of a relation or friend of the person to whom they appear, but though generally accompanied by fire, are innocuous.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 Various
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Welsh, viz. _Pen y cwn gwich_, and signifies a village at the head of a valley.
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A young lady's exact estimate of her cwn charms would be a difficult matter to determine but Charlotte certainly never estimated hers as meriting the full treatment of one of Sidney's intricate little plots.
Sanditon 1817
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It has descended to us unimpaired, and future duraliliry nuM dr pei'd upen cur cwn exertions.
Miscellany, in Verse and Prose James H. Price 1813
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Caesari Germanico, cui hoc opus consecratum, I.init. nobilitatem suam commen - dat, et caussam simul aperit, cur Aprilis olira, - secundurn io - cwn nabuerit, Hic seriem iri - texuit regura et Troianorum et Albanorum.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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Char.eod. gotb. cwn fign, fine cuft. y pagg.num. lin.
Annales typographici ab artis inventae origine (ad annum MDXXXVI).: ab artis inventae origine ad ... 1795
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Singularem reperit Barmanmu in Gialeiieiua tx Eaboea mmigaiitei cwn nuno Dorrillu: TATPOmmTANdN.,
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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He applies to the prefent time what the hillorian applied to the manners of the Roman republic; and fliews how far Salluft's charac - ters of the confpirators agree with feveral perfons who now, in onf cwn country, employ much of the public attention.
The Monthly Review 1789
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