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  • She had acquired a little information about cars of this style from an enthusiastic greatnephew.

    At Bertram's Hotel Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1965

  • He will, after exhausting his powers in life interests, leave the residuum to an unborn child "in strict tail-male so far as the rules of law will permit;" and he will stick in a springing use to effect that, if his greatnephew, the Rev. George, should ever from an Anglican become a pervert to Roman

    Speculations from Political Economy C. B. Clarke 1869

  • In the early eighties James Stieglitz, her greatnephew, pleaded guilty to criminal charges of forging O’Keeffe’s signatures on phony lithographs of her work.

    Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986

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