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Soon we flashblack to Nicola's childhood in Scotland, where the family war cry was -- when translated from Gaelic to English -- "Gainsay who dare."
Michael Giltz: Book Review: Cheers for Alexandra Fuller's Cocktail Hour... Michael Giltz 2011
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Soon we flashblack to Nicola's childhood in Scotland, where the family war cry was -- when translated from Gaelic to English -- "Gainsay who dare."
Michael Giltz: Book Review: Cheers for Alexandra Fuller's Cocktail Hour... Michael Giltz 2011
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Gainsay women; he obeyeth Allah best who saith them nay, ix.
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Gainsay women; he obeyeth Allah best, who saith them nay
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= P Major change in my sb would be taking out Hibernation and Gainsay.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2002
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I love Gainsay as a card, I think it's really useful for those counter-wars which I love so much (reminds me of real mage battles).
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2002
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God orders all, according to His will; Gainsay Him not in what He doth prepare,
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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Gainsay women; he obeyeth Allah best who saith them nay, And he prospers not who giveth them his bridle-rein to sway;
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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(Gainsay who dares); Loch-Sloy, the watchword of the Mac-Farlanes;
The Waverley 1877
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Gainsay women; he obeyeth Allah best who saith them nay, ix.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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