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- proper noun A
surname . A less common spelling ofKirk .
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Note 7: Pope observes that a number of women in Kirke's seventeenth-century colony at Ferryland were also single heads of fishing enterprises, and that many others were partners in household production.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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England held her conquest only from 1629 to 1632, if it be permissible to call Kirke's possession that of England when he was repudiated by his country.
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I had a tenant called Kirke, who was evicted for avowing republican opinions.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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But a joust wi 'Kirke's Lambs put them all to the rout. "
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In a release, Mr. Kirke said he had decided Mr. Perry was the candidate with "the skills, ideas and conviction" the party needs to win next year.
Christie Exit Shifts Focus to Romney Neil King Jr. 2011
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Kirke White wrote positively about Nathaniel Bloomfield's poetry in his
Letter 238 2009
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Andrew MuellerSet in the fictional Kirke University and revolving around the lives of members of staff, Campus was first shown as a pilot on C4 in 2009.
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His editions of the works of Chatterton and of Kirke White, for the benefit of the families of the prematurely deceased poets, showed his commitment to aiding poverty-stricken, labouring-class writers, as did his Attempts at Verse, by J. Jones with an Essay on Uneducated Poets (1831).
Index of People 2009
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Mr. Perry's camp touted its own supporter from among the crowed pushing Mr. Christie's candidacy, sending out word late Tuesday that Iowa insurance executive and casino owner Gary Kirke was going over to the Perry campaign.
Christie Exit Shifts Focus to Romney Neil King Jr. 2011
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Mr. Kirke was part of a delegation from Iowa who tried to recruit Mr. Christie earlier this year.
Christie Exit Shifts Focus to Romney Neil King Jr. 2011
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