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  • In the largest burst since it awoke in 1994, Popo last week coated nearby Puebla and surrounding vil lages with ash.

    Still Smoking 2008

  • I asked earlier in another posting if there had been an estimate of these ocean and oehr time lages.

    Gore Gored: Monckton replies « Climate Audit 2006

  • She had studied the maps every day, moving her lips as she went over them, speaking silently the names of the towns and cities and vil - lages to herself, memorizing their locations.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • Yet when he inspected the free village that his brother had established for the former Starr slaves, he found it at least as well tended as vil - lages occupied by lower-class whites.

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

  • It was composed of the heads of families who, in a village or a group of vil - lages, directed the cultivation of the land, controlling the size of the different fields as well as the method of cultivation and agricultural maintenance.

    PROPERTY WOLFGANG G. FRIEDMANN 1968

  • -- View of the Cartilages in front project and form the lages and Ligaments of the "Adam's apple," plainly seen and Larynx.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Atte kirke dure. ðar ðu c {ri} stned were. ðu higtes to leuen on him. ⁊ hise lages luuien.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • And egipte folc him bi {} waken.xl. nigtes and .xl. daiges. swilc woren egipte lages.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • Vil-lages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizon!

    The Wind in the Willows 1908

  • Here and there lay straggling, unlovely vil-lages, and lean men loafed leisurely at the depots; then again came the stretch of pines and clay.

    The Souls of Black Folk 1903

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