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  • Five Notorious Gangsters of the Great Depression birthday, birthdays, blythe danner, Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, feb 3, february 3, horace greeley, james michener, norman rockwell, Pretty Boy Floyd

    Five People Born on February 3 | myFiveBest 2010

  • "I would kill to get his sea blythe and put it on as a garnish," he says, referring to Mr. Strusinki's sea grass.

    In Search of Nature's Treats Sumathi Reddy 2010

  • The hard slap in the face though, was my own realization that our reliance on these technologies has led to a "We are the Masters of the Universe" myopia that has led to an blythe dismissal of the true risks of drilling where we drill.

    Robert L. Cavnar: My Industry -- the Oil Industry -- Should Be Ashamed of Itself 2010

  • The hard slap in the face though, was my own realization that our reliance on these technologies has led to a "We are the Masters of the Universe" myopia that has led to an blythe dismissal of the true risks of drilling where we drill.

    Robert L. Cavnar: My Industry Should be Ashamed of Itself 2010

  • I am an agnostic, but believe that a blythe dismissal of religion as mere “childish superstition” says more about the shallowness of the speaker than of the target.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Red Mass 2009

  • O wayt, iz ‘bonny and blythe’ old-fashund fr ‘deprest en b*tchee’ lyke ‘gay’ iz old-fashund fr cheerful?

    hungovr - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • It's equally simple to scorn Peter Pan because he's so blythe, so inconsiderate of the females who swoon over him, so wrapped up in being the leader of a gang of boys who refuse to accept adult responsibility.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Anne Johnson 2008

  • It's equally simple to scorn Peter Pan because he's so blythe, so inconsiderate of the females who swoon over him, so wrapped up in being the leader of a gang of boys who refuse to accept adult responsibility.

    Why I Love Peter Pan Anne Johnson 2008

  • ‘Hey, now the day dawns,’ but it has recalled some note of your blythe rebeck; and yet, such animals are we, that I had forgot the mien of my old friend, and scarcely knew him at a distance.

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • Sit down — sit down; the gudeman will be blythe to see you — ye nar saw him sae cadgy in your life; but we are to christen our bit wean the night, as ye will hae heard, and doubtless ye will stay and see the ordinance.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

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