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Our name, pronounced goo-welf is supposed to be the surname of a German aristocratic family....not sure how it came to be on the tip of John's tongue that faithful day when he chopped the first mighty tree, but that's history as they say.
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2006
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He must at least have more thap a qommon ac* quaintance with the principles and the phaeno - mena of physics, as welf as metaphysics.
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794
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Thank you for being concerned for my welf" In that moment pain overwhelmed her, filling up every part of her world.
A Change of Seasons Bast, Anya 2005
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