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Even the "Flying Swallow" is to be pitied, since she must rely upon ever new adornments.
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The resulting book I called Swallow The New Press, 2011.
Mary Cappello: Swallow This! Mary Cappello 2011
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The resulting book I called Swallow The New Press, 2011.
Mary Cappello: Swallow This! Mary Cappello 2011
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Swallows and Amazons, by Arthur Ransome The four Walker children spend their holidays at a farm by the side of "that great Lake in the North" an amalgam of Coniston and Windermere and sail a boat called Swallow.
Ten of the best 2011
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Side, I found your ships laden and ready to depart, where I embarked my selfe in your good ship called the Swallow, the 9. of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They are also known as the Swallow-tailed Flycatcher, and more frequently as the
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Such birds are called birds of passage; the Swallow is the one you know best, and it also is mentioned in the verse in which so many migratory birds are grouped together, "The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming."
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham
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In a fog two of the ships named the Swallow and the Squirrel separated from the others.
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917
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Both which we rescued, and took the man-of-war with all her men, which was the same ship now called the Swallow; following still their kind so oft as, being separated from the General, they found opportunity to rob and spoil.
Sir Humphrey Gilberts Voyage to Newfoundland. Paras. 1-49 1909
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He is called the Swallow, because there is not a man in the world swifter to retreat, or swifter to pursue.
The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887
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