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  • The bus rumbles around the round-a-bout and down Newcastle Street, past the row of thrift shops and the narrow student houses with brightly painted doors, blue and red and green, past Lim's Fish and Chips on the corner with its painted wooden sign of a smiling fish waving the British flag.

    A Love Letter to Norwich, England Dallas Woodburn 2011

  • Car after car was going through the round-a-bout, but he was motionless.

    Round And Round Erin Zulkoski 2011

  • As she approached the round-a-bout configuration in the road, her hands tensed on the steering wheel.

    Round And Round Erin Zulkoski 2011

  • This amounts to a round-a-bout tax levied only on the families of the millions of Americans behind bars.

    End state's immoral grab for money from the poor. 2008

  • I always thought it was funny that Brittan goes for a more democratic at least in my opinion form of intersection – the round-a-bout – while here in the home of democracy we tend to favor the more authoritative red-light / box intersection.

    Distracting Miss Daisy | clusterflock 2008

  • I just took a round-a-bout way to get here, is all.

    Wish Fulfillment Steven Barnes 2008

  • Are you going the round-a-bout way of telling John that you wrote those letters Bill?

    Letters From Neighborhood Bigots « Whatever 2006

  • Progress is slow….fight to get the funds, then build and test the instrument…fight to get more funds and the round-a-bout continues!

    Sciencemag on House E&C Hearing « Climate Audit 2006

  • Next morning, with veiled face, I made my way to the camp-ground in as round-a-bout way as I could, so that no one would know where I lodged the night before, and thus reproach be brought upon the cause of Christ.

    Trials and Triumphs of Faith Mary Cole

  • Among the games was a machine resembling an English round-a-bout, with wooden horses for the players, each of whom was furnished with a foil, with which he strove to seize the greatest number of rings from the centre; this was, indeed, a chivalrous exhibition.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various

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