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  • We will do anything to win even wearing stars and stripes,

    Beat 360° 10/6/09 2009

  • But the flag we serve now is the stars and the stripes,

    New National Anthem/Flag 2003

  • The money was gathered together from the various sources designated by the robbers, and when counted was found to be almost the whole sum originally put in the safe, The robbery was committed in the latter part of October, and the early part of the following January found the principals wearing the convicts 'stripes,

    Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

  • Here a red one and there a long one in yellow stripes,

    Films 1918

  • And like the queer old jackets and the waistcoats gay with stripes,

    Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The rain was pouring, a regular Normandy rain which one might have thought was let loose and showered down by a furious hand, a slanting rain, thick like a curtain, forming a kind of wall with oblique stripes,

    Mademoiselle Fifi Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • Each sense a plague -- by night with cruel stripes,

    The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Thanks to the magic of the Internet, you can download this new song (alongside a less-awesome cover of Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric?") right now via iTunes or listen to it in its entirety as much as you'd like on the band's homepage. the white stripes,

    MetalSucks 2009

  • Also in good general news for Death Knight tanks of all stripes,

    WoW.com 2009

  • Femoral pores 12; 3 parietals; 8 supraorbitals; gray browa with 10 longitudinal stripes,

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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