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  • To be continued … You can find out what happens to Slippery Jim and his ship-load of porcuswine in The Stainless Steel Rat Returns! published by Tor in Summer 2010.

    The Stainless Steel Rat Returns – Chapter 3 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009

  • They might even throw you an extra line of credit so you can buy another aircraft carrier and maybe a ship-load of Chinese pez dispensers.

    Matthew Yglesias » India’s Response to Terrorism 2010

  • To be continued … You can find out what happens to Slippery Jim and his ship-load of porcuswine in The Stainless Steel Rat Returns! published by Tor in Summer 2010.

    2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009

  • The Clintons are Tatanic ship-load of NEGATIVITY and cannot be trusted.

    BET founder to push for Clinton as Obama's VP pick 2008

  • The King grieved for her with exceeding grief and sent after her that one-eyed lameter, blind of the left,502 for that he was his chief Wazir, a stubborn tyrant and a froward devil,503 full of craft and guile, bidding him make search for her in all the lands of the Moslems and buy her, though with a ship-load of gold.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The story was inter-planetary that he could sell cooling systems to the Plutonians and heating units to the Mercurians and it wasn't so far-fetched at that, for right now he was spinning on his way through the space lanes to get rid of a ship-load of uranium to a Saturnian satellite named Boolo, whose only export was rich uranium ore.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Dave Tackett 2008

  • The story was inter-planetary that he could sell cooling systems to the Plutonians and heating units to the Mercurians and it wasn't so far-fetched at that, for right now he was spinning on his way through the space lanes to get rid of a ship-load of uranium to a Saturnian satellite named Boolo, whose only export was rich uranium ore.

    Super Salesman of Space Dave Tackett 2008

  • We left them in the clutches of the celebrated Turkish guide, "FAR-AWAY MOSES," who will seduce them into buying a ship-load of ottar of roses, splendid Turkish vestments, and all manner of curious things they can never have any use for.

    It Never Changes Rogers 2007

  • To diminish friction, he paves the road with iron bars, and, mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts through the country, from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air.

    Nature 2006

  • But then again, our best polemic divines — I wish there was not a polemic divine, said Yorick, in the kingdom; — one ounce of practical divinity — is worth a painted ship-load of all their reverences have imported these fifty years. —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

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