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Ma actually wells up, for the second time in a week, which is about all the wellings I have ever seen from her.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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Ma actually wells up, for the second time in a week, which is about all the wellings I have ever seen from her.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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Ma actually wells up, for the second time in a week, which is about all the wellings I have ever seen from her.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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Some experts estimate that tens of millions of gallons seep into the Gulf from natural up-wellings each year, fostering large populations of oil-eating bacteria and microorganisms.
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I know the Pielkes talk about the importance of local climate change as opposed to global, but I cannot recall seeing a discussion at this blog of any climate science done to understand these differences other than some general references to oceans up and down wellings.
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The notes here, however, strike the mind by their loudness and variety, as the wellings forth from joyous hearts of praise to Him who fills them with overflowing gladness.
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The hot battle-wellings; from his heart now departed
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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In woe-wellings seethed; trow'd not in the wending
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Best of buildings, was molten in wellings of fire,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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But for him did the war-grip the heart-wellings of him
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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