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  • Jack St.phens is the sheriff of St. Bernard Parish, and he's in New Orleans this morning.

    CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2005 2005

  • Jack St.phens is the sheriff of St. Bernard Parish.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2005 2005

  • You must leave the palace with her, and drive straight to St. St.phens-in-the-Fields.

    The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

  • The members of that assembly had been sent to St. St.phens to busy themselves, in unison, with the accomplishment of a common end; and if one among them should waste the time of the House by any form of obstruction, he could only do so by breaking the pledges upon the strength of which he had been elected.

    The Message 1912

  • By these perplexities which shut out all hope of retaliation from France, thus exciting its colonial appetite, and which opened to Russia the path to the Bosphorus in a final eastern war, detaining her for a time in St. St.phens and preparing the two

    The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Various 1888

  • The centre of the village is at the angle of Roehampton Lane, where a drinking-fountain, a gift of Mr. Lyne-St.phens, stands in the road, with the Catholic chapel of St. Joseph's, approached through a beautiful carved oaken lych-gate, facing it.

    Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London John Cunningham Geikie 1865

  • The most remarkable speaker was Mr. St.phens, of Georgia, of whom it might be said, as of St. Paul, "his bodily presence is weak," while his shrill, thin voice, issuing as it were by jerks from his narrow chest, recalled John Randolph.

    Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

  • K. St.phens, of St. Louis, and two grandsons of the celebrated Daniel

    The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Washington Irving 1821

  • (And now I realize that Language Log is totally the new alt. usage.english when it comes to naming these things: eggcorns and crash blossoms, misles and mishy-phens.)

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter 2010

  • Meanwhile, Fondale entered his match with top-ranked Matt St.phens of St. Paris Graham with little to lose, knowing he was guaranteed no worse than a second seed at the state meet.

    zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News 2010

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