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My pet pieve is listing my property with a top-producing agent then never hearing from them again.
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We have the technology and the computer power to do exactly that–to trace any single pieve of issued currency.
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Reagan was, in effect, the second most over-rated piece of crap president America ever had (The most over-rated pieve of crap president ever, was JFK, a Democrat.)
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Brilliant illustration, I agreed with the concept before reading this pieve, but you given me an entirely new way to look at it and communicate it to others.
When a chart is not enough dave gray 2005
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'Synchronicity', the group's fifth album, is highlighted by the gently romantic 'Tea In The Sahara', 'King Of Pain', with its alternately monastic and cathartic moods, and 'Synchronicity II', an aggressive, steely pieve that uses a longer melodic line than usual in Police songs.
Synchronicity 1983
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He established himself in the _pieve_ of Rostino, a few miles above the bridge, leaving orders for Gaffori to hold the strong heights of Lento, while Grimaldi was to defend Canavaggia, — two points by which the French might penetrate into the interior.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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Feuds, similar to those mentioned in the play, had long existed between the Vinconti and Grimaldi families, inhabitants of the village of Monte d'Olmo, in the _pieve_ of Ampugnano.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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A more venerable structure is Santa Maria, of the ninth century, called "la vecchia pieve" (the old parish).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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To-day the name is still given sometimes to a man who, by his property, his connections, and his clients, exercises influence, and a kind of effective magistracy over a pieve, or canton.
Mateo Falcone Prosper M 1907
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McDonald's worker was fired over an extra pieve of cheese
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010
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