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  • And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Are you bad in the eyes? the sympathetic personage like the townclerk queried. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • Fine lump of a woman all the same, the SOI-DISANT townclerk Henry Campbell remarked, and plenty of her.

    Ulysses 2003

  • What age is he? queried one hearer who, by the way, seen from the side, bore a distant resemblance to Henry Campbell, the townclerk, away from the carking cares of office, unwashed of course and in a seedy getup and a strong suspicion of nosepaint about the nasal appendage. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

    Acts 19. 1999

  • -- Are you bad in the eyes? the sympathetic personage like the townclerk queried.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • -- Fine lump of a woman all the same, the _soi-disant_ townclerk Henry

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • -- What age is he? queried one hearer who, by the way, seen from the side, bore a distant resemblance to Henry Campbell, the townclerk, away from the carking cares of office, unwashed of course and in a seedy getup and a strong suspicion of nosepaint about the nasal appendage.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010

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