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  • RAZ: That was an excerpt from "The First" by Yasmin Waring of Dallas, Texas.

    Three-Minute Fiction: Sneak Peak 2010

  • The negro steward who killed three of the prize privateer crew put on board the schooner Waring is on exhibition at Barnum's Museum, New

    The Civil War in America 1861

  • The man called Waring had dragged the honour of the Kelmscotts through the mud of the street.

    What's Bred in the Bone Grant Allen 1873

  • A family member called Waring and told her that Foy had mentioned that he was going to a party near Mosquito Beach on James Island.

    Local Headlines - ABC News 4 2010

  • His great-uncle was Alfred Domett (Browning's "Waring"), who was at one time Prime Minister of New Zealand.

    Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

  • His great-uncle was Alfred Domett (Browning's "Waring"), who was at one time Prime Minister of New Zealand.

    Biographical Sketches Louis Untermeyer 1920

  • Then they had talked about the passion for adventure, and Craven had spoken of his love, not yet lost, for Browning's poem, "Waring"; how he had read it when quite a boy and been fascinated by it as by few other poems.

    December Love Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • Of friendships outside his home we read of that with Alfred Domett, the 'Waring' of his poems, afterwards the poet and the statesman of New Zealand; with Joseph Arnould, afterwards the Indian judge; and with his cousin James Silverthorne, the 'Charles' of Browning's pathetic poem May and Death.

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • Domett, Browning's "Waring," at one time Prime Minister of New Zealand, and author of "Ranolf and Amohia," and other poems.

    The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons Ernest Christopher Dowson 1883

  • She was chagrined to learn that she had been discomposed not by 'a too exuberant financier, 'as she had surmised, but by, as "Waring" called Browning, the "subtlest assertor of the Soul in song."

    Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880

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