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  • If people could keep more of what they earm, they would not need unemployment insurance.

    Wonk Room » Getting Unemployment Benefits To All Who Need Them 2009

  • And, if you dare to oppose other pork-barrel projects, the earm arkers will retaliate against you.

    Welcome, Senate Conservatives Jim DeMint 2010

  • It's all because I'm considering doing something which I know is bad karma, but I want it so sooooo badly and I feel like I have to earm some good karma here to prepay my potential bad deed ......

    lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2003

  • Jabulani amphitheatre in Soweto. earm with the serial number filed off was seized.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • At the same time, a mason in Guatemala, India or Bangladesh had to work three days to earm the "same" bag of cement.

    5. Building with Unbonded Pumice 1990

  • But the innovation reached even to the commonest words in every-day use, so that _voice_ drove out _steven_, _poor_ drove out _earm_, and _color_,

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

  • But the innovation reached even to the commonest words in every-day use, so that _voice_ drove out _steven, poor_ drove out _earm_, and _color, use_, and _place_ made good their footing beside

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • Oferswam þâ sióleða bigong sunu Ecgþeówes, earm ân-haga eft tô leódum,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Geáta leóde hreâ-wîc heóldon, _held the place of corpses_, 1215. hreád, st. f., _ornament_ (?), in comp. earm-hreád.

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

  • Comp.: earm -, heals-beág. beág-gyfa, w. m., _ring-giver_, designation of the prince: gen.sg. - gyfan,

    Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

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