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And the password he chose for Palin's email was popcorn - as in popcorn "kernell"!
Jihad Monitor 2008
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When these Mats be greene they are full of an excellent sweet water to drinke: and if a man be thirsty, with the liquour of one of the Mats he may satisfie himselfe: and as this Nut ripeneth, the liquour thereof turneth all to kernell.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The foule Toade hath a fayre stone in his head, the fine golde is found in the filthy earth; the sweet kernell lyeth in the hard shell; vertue is harboured in the heart of him that most men esteeme misshappen.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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Eschilus forethreatned by the fall of an house, when he stood most upon his guard, strucken dead by the fall of a tortoise shell, which fell out of the tallants of an eagle flying in the air? and another choaked with the kernell of a grape?
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They haue most excellent salte in kernell, which they fetch from a certaine lake a dayes iourney from hence ....
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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The one kind is of the same taste and forme or litle differing from ours of England, but that they are harder and thicker shelled: the other is greater and hath a verie ragged and harde shell: but the kernell great, verie oylie and sweete.
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Their shells black with age, and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly hard as ever.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Their shells black with age, and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly hard as ever.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 38: September 1665 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Their shells black with age, and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly hard as ever.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Their shells black with age, and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly hard as ever.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1665 Pepys, Samuel 1665
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