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- proper noun An
English surname derived from aNorman habitational name for someone from Eschalle in Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Examples
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Still Gary Disher provides his audience with an engaging Australian police procedural as Challis is out of town conducting an unsanctioned private investigation re his family while Destry works a police procedural inquiry into a kidnapped child.
Chain of Evidence-Gary Disher « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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" "Challis," an angry Rudenuaman yelled, "can't you keep that brat quiet?
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Halogen cardigan, $78, Mimi Chica ruffle-front "Challis" dress, $44, and Rough Roses pyramid stud belt, $58, all at Nordstrom.
azcentral.com | news Ginger Murphy 2010
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"Challis," an angry Rudenuaman yelled, "can't you keep that brat quiet?
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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"Challis," an angry Rudenuaman yelled, "can't you keep that brat quiet?
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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"Challis," an angry Rudenuaman yelled, "can't you keep that brat quiet?
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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Schueler was a navigator in the Army Air Corps, flying bombing raids over France and Germany; Challis was an emergency ambulance driver in London.
David Galenson: Portrait of an Abstract Expressionist David Galenson 2011
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Both were married -- Schueler to a woman he had met only months before, during basic training, Challis to a submarine commander she hadn't seen in two years -- but they had a brief but intense romance in London during the blackout.
David Galenson: Portrait of an Abstract Expressionist David Galenson 2011
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He had been dreaming of going to the Scottish Highlands for 15 years, since 1942, when he had met Bunty Challis in London, at a tea dance for American officers.
David Galenson: Portrait of an Abstract Expressionist David Galenson 2011
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Both were married -- Schueler to a woman he had met only months before, during basic training, Challis to a submarine commander she hadn't seen in two years -- but they had a brief but intense romance in London during the blackout.
David Galenson: Portrait of an Abstract Expressionist David Galenson 2011
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