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It means that if you lose any of those twenty-fours you cannot recover them – because there are no twenty-five/sevens.
VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010
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It means that if you lose any of those twenty-fours you cannot recover them – because there are no twenty-five/sevens.
VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010
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It means that if you lose any of those twenty-fours you cannot recover them – because there are no twenty-five/sevens.
VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010
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It means that if you lose any of those twenty-fours you cannot recover them – because there are no twenty-five/sevens.
VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010
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Hopefully when I return it will be twenty-fours since my last consumption of solid food, and then Thursday it will forty-eight.
ecstasia Diary Entry ecstasia 2006
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With a battery of long twenty-fours up here, the landing, the bay, and all the roads are at our mercy.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Six long twenty-fours of the new make, here in front, and two eighteens upon either flank, and I should like to see the whole of the Boulogne flotilla try to take yonder shore by daylight.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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My effort to defy the gods, only twenty-fours old now, has all but ended.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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DURHAM: And then the twenty, eighteen, and twenty and twenty-two, twenty-fours and thirties, that's fine, fine thread.
Oral History Interview with Eula and Vernon Durham, 1978 November 29. Interview H-64. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eula Durham Eula Durham 1978
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And then the twenty, eighteen, and twenty and twenty-two, twenty-fours and thirties, that's fine, fine thread.
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