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  • L: Approach hold even if Lume looses (sic) As far as can be established, Luciano is a private intelligence operative Ouboet is Mr Selebi Oujan is probably Mr Zuma Presumably a review of the cases "Lume" is nickname for Mr Mngwengwe, the Investigating Director of the DSO

    News24 2009

  • "Lume," asked Mose, "do you know anything about this?

    Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904

  • During the same year, he published his first major work of poetry, A Lume Spento a work described in his letter of the same year to William Carlos Williams reproduced in this volume in the “Documents” section.

    Ezra Pound greenintegerblog 2008

  • Both government and independent media reported Tuesday that the soldiers formerly based in eastern Congo's areas of Bunia and Lume were on Saturday transported in trucks and helicopters back to

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • We moved quietly, detectors out, scanning the area for a light-day around as we moved forward at less than one Lume through Cth. More would have been fatal for had we been forced to resort to a quick breakout to avoid enemy action, and if we were travelling above one Lume when we hit threespace, we'd simply disappear, leaving a small spatial vortex in our wake.

    A Question of Courage Virgil Finlay 1951

  • I checked the course, noted it was true, set the controls on standby and relaxed, half dozing in the chair as Lume after Lume dropped astern with monotonous regularity.

    A Question of Courage Virgil Finlay 1951

  • As the chief poems in "A Lume Spento" were afterwards incorporated in "Personae," the book demands mention only as a date in the author's history.

    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry 1926

  • England, and here, in 1908, "A Lume Spento" appeared.

    Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry 1926

  • Lume was so overjoyed at this that he didn't quite catch the full force of the qualifying clause and he rode back home feeling that there was still hope.

    Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904

  • Old Watt wasn't dressed for company, but Lume pushed inside without waiting for an invitation.

    Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904

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