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  • Shirley Neish bought some Uvistat sun cream: "The recommended dose is approx 6 teaspoons per average size adult."

    RIP a true gent and an earl of wisdom 2011

  • It began by Lady Lingfield turning to Neish and saying through impalpable lorgnettes, "I hear you're one of these Layba people: I've always wondered what it feels like to be a Socialist."

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • To which Neish replied with savage dryness: "Mebbe ye'd better j'st try it some time and see?"

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • It's probably made her think that everybody who is even faintly progressive is like Neish.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • As a matter of fact, "she added," I very much doubt whether people like Neish and Agnes ever think at all.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • She had never had any use for her rich diehard sister-in-law Agnes Lingfield; but if she really wanted to bait her she could have chosen a more effective, because less far-fetched, opponent than little Neish.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • I thought of Whistler's "Cremorne Gardens" and his "Valparaiso," for this was such a night effect as he could have painted, and so I thought of The M'Nab's saying, "The night is the night if the men were the men." -- someone, a Neish perhaps, may see the connection of ideas here, I admit it is slight.

    From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

  • According to the tradition, it was the refuge of the remnant of the Clan Neish who had been defeated in a bloody battle with the MacNabs.

    Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

  • But Neish, who said he has a long history of activism, said he plans to participate in this latest flotilla despite knowing the outcome could be deadly.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Marten Youssef 2011

  • "The goal isn't to send aid to Gaza, but to break the blockade," Neish said.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Marten Youssef 2011

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