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Enter from sky-light above stage dropped from a UFO: Very sensible report by very sensible hand-picked friend of Prime Minister and ACPO containing the following recommendation: “Officers should not rely upon their skills of observation and experience but must nick everyone and separate them at two different stations for at least 8 hours just in case.”
Pants On Fire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The bathroom had a sky-light over the tub, and often, when I couldn't sleep, I would take a bath and gaze up at the stars.
Tom Matlack: An Open Letter to Tiger Woods (and American Men): Crash & Learn 2010
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I watched, sick and shuddering, until a fresh burst of firing came from the Shenandoah side, and from the other sky-light, which was broken, I saw distant figures surging round the rifle works, and heard guns popping like toys in the distance.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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So they clomb over the roofs and coming down through the sky-light, 210 saw him naked and flogging himself and asked him, “What aileth thee, O Khalifah?”
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No, but put a sky-light on top of his head to illuminate inwards.
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I watched, sick and shuddering, until a fresh burst of firing came from the Shenandoah side, and from the other sky-light, which was broken, I saw distant figures surging round the rifle works, and heard guns popping like toys in the distance.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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I watched, sick and shuddering, until a fresh burst of firing came from the Shenandoah side, and from the other sky-light, which was broken, I saw distant figures surging round the rifle works, and heard guns popping like toys in the distance.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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The sun had gone to bed already, and the sky-light was fading, and they wanted to get whatever it was they were making finished before it got dark.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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"You can look out of the sky-light _now_," he said to her later,
Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly Edith King Hall
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"Have you looked up through the sky-light this afternoon?" he asked.
Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly Edith King Hall
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