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  • Circumstances of Dr. S.i'vens's appointment as U.S. Consul-Generat ix S.. Domingo.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • Link to rob vens very interesting website and blog have subscribed to rob's blog

    waiting for the perfect scifi writer Bill Kerr 2008

  • When the Iraq Study Group was launched in March 2006, the inspiration of some retired Washington foreign-policy ma-vens, its conclusion seemed destined for a dusty shelf.

    The Rescue Squad 2007

  • "Their aim is to make Thailand a regional manufacturing hub [for generics]," says Ste-vens.

    A New Kind of Drug War 2007

  • HE DUNNE HOUSE was what local real-estate ma vens might call Lutyens-style neo-Elizabethan.

    Along Came a Spider Patterson, James, 1947- 1993

  • He told Wren more about life on Morrowindl, a harrowing account of the daily struggle to survive in a world where everything was always hunting or being hunted, where there were no safe ha - vens, and where life was usually short and bitter.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

  • Hole Pass to Puget Sound will be about five hundred and twenty miles, making the entire distance from St. Paul to Puget Sound about sixteen hundred miles, or one hundred and forty-three miles shorter than that surveyed by Governor St.vens.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

  • One day soon after we had come to this city I was walking down Market Street late in the afternoon, when I was accosted by a well-dressed man of mid - dle age, who after greeting me cordially said: 'Ste - vens, I know, of course, that you do not go out much, but I have told my wife about you, and she would be glad to see you at the house.

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

  • Members of the Lytton, Mitchell, and St.vens families of St. Christopher were among the first to respond to the liberal offer of the

    The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • Robert Louis St.venson came down from Saranac, and Clemens went in to visit him at his New York hotel, the St. St.vens, on East Eleventh

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

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