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  • "Salad of Creedy Carver duck, applewood-smoked breast, artichoke barigoule, foraged wild herbs and flowers."

    Restaurant: The Pump House, Bristol 2010

  • The imminent arrival of new competitors for the Australia-US route means that there are substantial discounts to be had; Creedy points out that sub-$1200 return flights to the US are available with every carrier servicing that route, and that sub-$2000 fares can be had on the Australia-Europe route if you choose the right carrier.

    Has There Been A Flood Of Discount Flights? | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Is it just me or does anyone else think that Negroponte looks kind of like Creedy, the head of the Finger in the movie V for Vendetta?

    Firedoglake » I’d Like Political Enemies for $800, Alex 2006

  • "Gentlemen, you know what this calls for: an inspirational slow-motion montage featuring Joe Sakic and Marty Brodeur in action, set to the tune of some vaguely Creedy alterna-band."

    sirilyan Diary Entry sirilyan 2002

  • Here one may leave the Exe to follow the Creedy upstream for five miles or so, till Crediton is reached.

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • Not quite two miles north of Exeter, the Exe turns due south, and is joined by the Creedy, running south-west.

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • Creedy, which imparts to it a reddish colour from the soil through which the latter flows.

    Exeter Sidney Heath 1907

  • At Cowley Bridge, two miles above Exeter, the river is joined by the Creedy, which, coming from the north-west, flows through and gives name to _Creedy-ton_, or Crediton.

    Exeter Sidney Heath 1907

  • In another ten minutes, Lord K. 's Private Secretary, and one of the best, Creedy, would turn up panting but trying not to look heated.

    Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

  • Three well-marked valleys -- those of the Creedy, the Exe, and the Culm -- spread their rural loveliness to remote points of the horizon; gentle undulations, with pasture and woodland, with long winding roads, and many a farm that gleamed white amid its orchard leafage, led the gaze into regions of evanescent hue and outline.

    Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

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