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  • It's got beautiful movements and I think there is nothing else that combines that beauty of momvement with the tremendously graceful pirit.

    thinking with my fingers Torill 2002

  • "Seems to me that Emperor o your'n must be put to the push if he's druv to gettin a mucky little pirit like you to do his business," grumbled the other.

    The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

  • He also describes the ceremonies of pirit and bana, the perahera procession, and two classes of Buddhist monks, the elders and the ordinary members of the Sangha.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

  • "You's lookin 'for the pirit!" said Ebony in a hoarse whisper, and with

    The Madman and the Pirate Arthur Twidle 1859

  • Fizzerald, it may be your duty to seize dis pirit and deliber him up to justice, but it's no duty ob mine to help you. '

    The Madman and the Pirate Arthur Twidle 1859

  • "Dere's a good deal ob de ole ring about dat, sar, but you's not a pirit cappen now, an 'I ain't one ob de pirit crew."

    The Madman and the Pirate Arthur Twidle 1859

  • Well, Rosco de pirit, de horroble scoundril, hims lib here.

    The Madman and the Pirate Arthur Twidle 1859

  • Rape, robbery, murder, mayhem, chaos, and anarchy are butt a small price to pay for all the untaxed profiteering born from the $pirit of capitalism and unregulated free enterprise activities.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Chingari Trust, Bhopal Gas pirit sangharsh samiti are in solidairity of the resitance at Nandigram and against the butchers of Nandigram.

    Kafila 2009

  • Domestic fishing boats carry an assortment of fish types that include the locally known belong-belong, matambaka, galunggong and pirit.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2009

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