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This is like a giant SOS, May-Day, like, oh, my god, I ` m a psycho.
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Motsoenyane was allegedly killed by police during a May-Day celebration at Jouberton stadium, near Klerkdorp in the North West
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Colonell Blunt summoned in two Regiments of his foot Souldiers to appear the last May-Day, May the 1, at Blackheath, to be trained and exercised that day, and the ground was raised, and places provided to pitch in, for the Souldiers to meet in two bodies, which promised the Countrey much content, in some pretty expressions, and accordingly their expectations were satisfied.
War Game Price, Anthony 1976
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Then New Year's Day placed a crown on his head, May-Day gave him a rose, Fourth of July, a flag, Thanksgiving, an apple, Washington's
The Story of the Big Front Door Mary Finley Leonard
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The children had promptly sent a note to Father Dominic thanking him for his appropriate May-Day gift.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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And there are nearly twenty species which I have noted, for five or six years together, as found before May-Day, and which may therefore be properly assigned to April.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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May-Day is never allowed to pass in this community without profuse lamentations over the tardiness of our spring as compared with that of England and the poets.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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(XELIDONISMA), sung at the beginning of spring, and answered to the still surviving English May-Day songs.
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On the eve of "Valborg's Dag" (May-Day) bonfires are lighted, and the young Danes have a dinner and dance given to them.
Denmark M. Pearson Thomson
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These little people were all in their cleanest white frocks and prettiest hats: they clung to each other and to their garlands and staves of flowers until the tangled mob reminded one of a May-Day fete.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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