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  • They can sometimes upen up the garbage can that I have trouble opening.

    Waldo Jaquith - Mama cat. 2008

  • There, on the altars of Ultimate Night, the priest-wizards tore upen the breasts of the living victims, ripped out their hearts with knives of volcanic glass, and offered up the life-force thereof to the whirling cloud of vampyric darkness that formed above the pyramid and hung there for hours, feeding on the living force of human souls.

    Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

  • Already the insurance rates were raised on our shipping in consequence of the state of our relations with America, and he thought that the protestations of Mr. Seward were not of much value, when it was notorious that Admiral Wilkes was making the most piratical attacks upen our vessels.

    Imperial Parliament 1863

  • CR4 allows you to "subscribe" to a discussion hi. this is upen from chennai.

    CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries Guest 2010

  • So, just by way of balance, here are two comments from bishops that I stumbled upen yesterday:

    Telegraph Blogs 2009

  • * 200 MB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files (Minimum Install) yopladas (9 / 4 / 2008 - version 1.1.0) cant give a good one till i know how to upen it. how do i? it looks like a windows program or im missing some software.

    Mac Game Files 2009

  • It has descended to us unimpaired, and future duraliliry nuM dr pei'd upen cur cwn exertions.

    Miscellany, in Verse and Prose James H. Price 1813

  • As the com - buflibie part of it was fet oa fire before it was difcharged upen the enemy, and this fire muft have been greatly increaf - ed by the air fanning it in its motion, it could not fail to do mifchief, and ftrike terror.

    An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780

  • Should a Democrat be elected, one would expect two or three seats to upen up during that president’s first term.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Missing Case of Connecticut v. AEP: 2009

  • ` ` like a hen, '' as he afterwards said, ` ` upen a het girdle; '' and chuckling, he might have added, like the said hen in all the glory of laying an egg --- now pushed forward: ` ` That I can, that I can, your Honour, '' drawing from his pocket a budget of papers, and untying the red tape with a hand trembling with eagerness.

    The Waverley 1877

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