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  • After being considered one of the worst transactions in the history of the Premiership, Andriy Shevchenko looks to return to his pold stomping ground in order to regian his long-lost form.

    Sheva To Return To Milan? 2008

  • Among others thinking along the same lines in the twentieth century are the German philosopher Leo - pold Ziegler and the French Jesuit and anthropologist

    ESCHATOLOGY WALTER SCHMITHALS 1968

  • You and I would have begun to quake and tremble, but Hosea was not afraid; he was a prave man, a pold man.

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • It was in a place where I could not preed no contention with him; but I will be so pold as to wear it in my cap till I see him once again, and then I will tell him a little piece of my desires.

    Act V. Scene I. The Life of King Henry the Fifth 1914

  • Be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit, and when I give the watch-ords, do as I pid you.

    Act V. Scene IV. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

  • Even Murchison, however, made some recession from the belief of the Continental authorities, Élie de Beaumont and Leo - pold von Buch, who contended that the mountains had sprung up like veritable jacks-in-the-box.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

  • Semi-pold. lace boots, treble soles, 1 pound 1 shilling 0 pence.

    The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

  • When the tumult and the shouting died, Tam resumed with a quiver in his voice, for "ta pold MacTavish" had tickled him too.

    The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

  • (Roars of laughter, and a reproving voice, "Oh, ta pold MacTa-avish!" whereat there was pandemonium).

    The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

  • It is very pold of me to gome to preak my fastd wid you uninvided; and I have brought along wid me a nodable abbetite; for the wader of old Fader Dems is it not a fine pracer of the stomach? '

    The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878

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