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  • Himing's halter -- the trooso was hordered -- the wedding dressis were being phitted hon -- a weddinkake weighing half a tunn was a gettn reddy by

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • I believe it is legal to mail an absentee ballot to a voter who will tunn 18 on or before election day.

    Sound Politics: Mail Ballot Horror Show (XXXIV): Underage voters 2006

  • Stay tunn-ed to find out which dance rocked most of the bar's regulars. ps: As usual, I have enabled comment moderation to avoid influence.

    Sayesha on the rocks 2008

  • At the End of ye town just by the Castle you Crosse over a very large and Long Bridge over the River Dee wch has the tyde Comes up much beyond the town; its 7 mile off yt it falls into ye sea, but its very broad below ye town, when at high tyde is like a very broad sea: there they have a little Dock and build shipps of 200 tunn, I saw some on the stocks.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • Sun stoned; to this, put the Peel of one large Lemon, and about forty large fresh Cloves: boil all these together, taking off the Scum carefully as it rises; then pour it off into some Vessel to cool, and as soon as it is cool enough to put Yeast to it, work it as you would do Ale for two days, and then tunn it, taking care not to stop the Vessel till it has done Working, and in a Month's time it will be ready to bottle.

    The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm Richard Bradley 1710

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