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A winter sports elmet must meet many conflicting demands.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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A winter sports elmet must meet many conflicting demands.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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A winter sports elmet must meet many conflicting demands.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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It was not for want of having it expounded to them, for their military attache -- "'im with the spatchcock on' is 'elmet,'" as I heard him described by a British orderly -- missed nothing of what occurred, as is evident from their official history of the war.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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And I comes round the corner of the ‘ouse and I sees you — and your ‘elmet, so don’t you go a denying of it.’
Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937
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"'Ot work," he ses, taking off his 'elmet and wiping his bald' ead with a large red handkerchief.
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"'Ot work," he ses, taking off his 'elmet and wiping his bald' ead with a large red handkerchief.
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"Why, I gave you that black eye, I smashed your 'elmet, I cut your silly' ead open, I----"
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"Why, I gave you that black eye, I smashed your 'elmet, I cut your silly' ead open, I----"
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"Stone hit him on the 'elmet, and I expect his head's caved in."
Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills George Manville Fenn 1870
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