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  • -- I tink efery schell eggsblode bei der beckside my neck.

    The Octopus : A story of California Frank Norris 1886

  • Not with audible footstep; not down the road at which Irene frequently glanced; the intruder approached from the lower part of the glen, along the beckside, now walking in soft herbage, now striding from stone to stone, sometimes lifting the bough of a hazel or a rowan that hung athwart his path.

    The Crown of Life George Gissing 1880

  • Irene stepped down from the bridge down to the beckside.

    The Crown of Life George Gissing 1880

  • This relatively short route takes you through one of the most striking of the newly opened areas in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, above the pretty beckside village of Clapham.

    Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • And, changing the venders, from the king’s head to the republican’s arms, as to the pugnaxities evinxed from flagfall to antepost during the effrays round fatherthyme’s beckside and the regents in the plantsown raining, with the skiddystars and the morkern-windup, how they appealed to him then?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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