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  • And those who have undergone, out of their knowledge, claim that in the making of the world God grew tired, and when he came to the last barrowload, "just dumped it anyhow," and that was how

    The Gold Hunters of the North 2010

  • I'm gathering in the Michael Morpurgo's by the barrowload so The White Horse of Zennor, The Wreck of the Zanzibar and I Believe in Unicorns to fill some gaps in my already plenteous supply.

    Sunday Confessions on Sunday 2006

  • I'm gathering in the Michael Morpurgo's by the barrowload so The White Horse of Zennor, The Wreck of the Zanzibar and I Believe in Unicorns to fill some gaps in my already plenteous supply.

    52 entries from October 2006 2006

  • Or is it because some bloke from Microsoft told him they were, shortly after pocketing a barrowload of taxpayers' cash?

    What are the "right safeguards" Tom? 2008

  • I'm gathering in the Michael Morpurgo's by the barrowload so The White Horse of Zennor, The Wreck of the Zanzibar and I Believe in Unicorns to fill some gaps in my already plenteous supply.

    Sunday Confessions on Sunday 2006

  • One was cuffed over the side of his head by a fellow with a barrowload of potatoes for sale as she sprinted past.

    The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • The stableboy had left it open when he returned from wheeling a barrowload of manure to the pile there.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • "He'll be dragged up in a barrowload of cement and shingle if he tries to fly out of this bloody grave," Harper grumbled.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

  • "He'll be dragged up in a barrowload of cement and shingle if he tries to fly out of this bloody grave, " Harper grumbled.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

  • Into the pit Alvin dumped a barrowload of the stones he'd levered out only an hour before.

    Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

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