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  • Beyond Nirj Deva's brief spell in Parliament after 1992, it took two Conservatives of Asian origin breaking through in 2005 to diversify the all-white benches.

    Kwasi Kwarteng: The rising star of politics and letters | profile 2011

  • Butler and Ponsonby, we get the "mingling" of stream and river; the women "favour" the river rather than one another; they "have abode so long" not with each other but "on Deva's banks"; and when their love is finally proclaimed — twice over — in the closing couplet — it arrives in the trope of sisterhood, a trope arguably not devoid of erotic potential for a

    'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006

  • He moved east for two hundred paces, crossing the stream, leaving his track on a muddy bank, and looping a torn fragment of Deva's shirt over a gorse bush.

    The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

  • The named atheletes, Gaelen and Agwaine among them, jostled for position as Deva's arm swept up, hovered momentarily, then flashed down and the race began.

    The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

  • Turning, he looked up at Deva's window hoping to see a light.

    The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

  • The first fell, Deva's arrow jutting from his right eye.

    The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

  • The woman's voice came whispering into Deva's mind.

    The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

  • Deva's are not GODS because they are not eternal and are therefore subject to the law of REBIRTH.

    Concise Dictionary of Religion 1993

  • --- RICHEUEU THE Mob did not try another gambit right after their disastrous attempt to move in on Deva's bookies.

    Hit Or Myth Asprin, Robert 1983

  • So did Catullus talk of Sirmio; Horace of his Farm; Milton of "Deva's wizard-stream";

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

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