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  • I don't know what to do, dear Lord -- the windy is nelt down.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • I don't know what to do, dear Lord – the windy is nelt down.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • But to get there we had to walk through a beautifull park that was full of rubber trees, The oldest being 300 years old but it was when I nelt to take a picture of it that I thought of fin, infact I told Alexandria that I knew someone who would like this tree.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • V/hat boaded this? but well-fore - warning winds Did feem to fay, feek not a fcorpion's nelt;

    The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected 1773

  • This is it ” when I strike the foretop to-morrow let me do it with the guts of a man what is clean and God dear God from this here day on giv me the feeling I use to have long ago when I nelt at my mother's knee an said Our Father.

    From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

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