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  • Nothing in this act shall be construed to re - retu'rns''''etc Heve the last person who was the treasurer or assistant treasurer, or, in their absence or incapacity, who was any other principal officer of each of the corporations named in Acts, 1934. —

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Anyone who downloads from anywhere other than kazaa (or other p2p) will quickly become familiar with rns, kmt, and other release groups.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Inside the World of Software Piracy: 2005

  • Anyone who downloads from anywhere other than kazaa or other p2p will quickly become familiar with rns, kmt, and other release groups.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Inside the World of Software Piracy: 2005

  • And in 1760 it was an Archbishop Palafox who tore down the old faqade of the cathedral, replacing it with the rns ble churrigueresque masterpiece of which I have already spoken.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • N.B. Coarse salt can be bought from B.rns Philip at $7.50/cwt.

    Chapter 8 1983

  • An 'th' sooner a man lear-rns, th 'bether ut is fer um, that all women know more thin they let on -- an' they've always an ace fer a hole car-rd bekase av ut.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • J.B. Ah! You haven't talked to him as I have, Ma'am: only about politics, and poetry, and things like that, where, maybe, he knows a bit more than I do (though he didn't know his B.rns so well as a man ought that thinks to make laws for Scotland!).

    Angels & Ministers Laurence Housman 1912

  • Th 'idee iv givin' books f'r Christmas prisints whin th 'stores are full iv tin hor-rns an' dhrums an 'boxin' gloves an choo-choo ca-ars!

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • An 'nawthin' makes a man so mad an 'so scared as whin something he looked down on as infeeryor tur-rns on him.

    Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • I can holler to anny man fr'm th 'top iv a buildin' an 'make him tur-rn r-round, but if I come down to th' sthreet where he can see I aint anny bigger thin he is, an 'holler at him, 'tis twinty to wan if he tur-rns r-round he'll hit me in th' eye.

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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