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Because it was a little canarybird that came out of its little house to tell the time that Gerty MacDowell noticed the time she was there because she was as quick as anything about a thing like that, was Gerty MacDowell, and she noticed at once that that foreign gentleman that was sitting on the rocks looking was
Ulysses 2003
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Because it was a little canarybird that came out of its little house to tell the time that Gerty MacDowell noticed the time she was there because she was as quick as anything about a thing like that, was Gerty
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Hamas officials. canarybird theorized a profit motive:
Elites TV Global Voices Online 2010
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Prayer, illustrated originally by a penman with uncommon genius for scroll-work; a group of water-lilies in wax, floating on a mirror-lake and protected by a glass globe; a full-rigged schooner, built cunningly inside a bottle by a matricide serving a life-sentence in the penitentiary at San Quinten; and a mechanical canarybird in a gilded cage, acquired at the Philadelphia Centennial, -- a bird that had carolled its death -- lay in the early winter of 1877 when it was wound up too hard and its little insides snapped.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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