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  • Small, motely group in a park with cardboard signs in some tiny town with card tables set up and kids in strollers.

    Welcome to the Tea Party: Infighting plagues conservative group 2010

  • This should be required reading for Obama, Blair, Clinton and the motely crew.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • But Chattisgarh has, with the active encouragement of the Union Home Ministry, allowed a motely crew of private individuals to unleash war on the Maoists in the state.

    Aiding the menace Abhay N 2007

  • The latter motely crew and I attended the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's amazing concert--my first jazz concert, and probably impossible to beat.

    Mmmmm...Big Apple... yuki_onna 2007

  • My squad is a motely assortment of figures though...

    MINI WARGAMING: Star Mogul Strikes Again! MaksimSmelchak 2006

  • My squad is a motely assortment of figures though...

    Archive 2006-02-01 MaksimSmelchak 2006

  • The crowd, mostly, was an excited and motely assortment of low caste males, but, here and there, there were veiled women amongst them, generally these, too, of low caste.

    Fighting Slave Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

  • There were a few rather overdressed persons from New Orleans brought up by Governor Warmouth, and a motely array of Southerners of every sort, who were ready to clutch at any straw that promised relief to intolerable conditions.

    Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • There were a few rather overdressed persons from New Orleans brought up by Governor Warmouth, and a motely array of Southerners of every sort, who were ready to clutch at any straw that promised relief to intolerable conditions.

    Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • The most rude and lawless of the male portion of this motely mass, are the scions of the large proprietors in the neighborhood, who are the oligarchs of these ecclesiastical purlieus.

    The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859

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