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  • And with pride, he went down a four-hundred foot cliff, on a pair of top-gallant studding - sail halyards bent together, to dislodge several dollars worth of stranded bullock hides, though all the acclaim he got from his mates was: "What a d-d fool you were to risk your life for half a dozen hides!"

    A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010

  • They could say “d-d dog” all they wanted, but it seemed to confuse them a little.

    Your Baby Can Read Reviews: Is It Effective? « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • “You d-d ungrateful villain!” says he, “what do you stand there laughing for?”

    The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

  • There are some big, brawling, forty-year-old cowards who would have turned sick at the look of the d-d thing; but not you — you kept your head.

    The Body-Snatcher 2004

  • ‘Between friends these little d-d accommodations ought to fly like pipe-lights.’

    The Body-Snatcher 2004

  • "Are ye saying that W-W-Wolf ... the Mayor's own d-d-dog ... got into the downstairs seamstress's closet and chewed up my Conversational d-d -" But she couldn't finish.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • A hypothetical quasi-particle a few times as massive as the electron would increase the cold fusion rate to readily measurable levels, about 10E-20 fusions per d-d molecule per second [1].

    His Watery Beer Ascherson, Neal 1964

  • I told him to "summons and be d-d," I would not go.

    Reminiscences of a Pioneer William Thompson

  • And with pride, he went down a four-hundred foot cliff, on a pair of top-gallant studding - sail halyards bent together, to dislodge several dollars worth of stranded bullock hides, though all the acclaim he got from his mates was: "What a d-d fool you were to risk your life for half a dozen hides!"

    A Classic of the Sea 1917

  • But in the ancient Greek theory these names were applied to the scales e-e, d-d, c-c, b-b respectively.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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