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  • noun A rack for magazines or other papers, usually wooden, often done as a decorative piece.

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From Canterbury.

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  • Then you can pour a second cup quite soon after you’ve finished the first, and it’ll be a half-decent cuppa. hats for weddings in canterbury - I also feel strongly about this.

    And now… your searches « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006

  • The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871

  • The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • A game excellent I must get playing, our games shop has changed hands in canterbury...promising more historical figures and wargames evenings ...

    A Sudan Wargame! legatus hedlius 2009

  • Canterbury Cathedral is open to visitors Monday to Saturday 9am-5pm; Sundays 12.30-4.30pm; admission £6.50 01227 762 862; www.canterbury-cathedral.org .

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Got home fri, unpacked * most* of my stuff ... left for canterbury sat morning, got there at lunctime.

    abutterfly Diary Entry abutterfly 2007

  • There are loads of tour packages -- Emagine (santa tours. co.uk) and Canterbury Tales (canterbury-tales. com) are two of the most established operators.

    Tip Sheet 2007

  • Canterbury Cathedral is open to visitors Monday to Saturday 9am-5pm; Sundays 12.30-4.30pm; admission £6.50 01227 762 862; www.canterbury-cathedral.org .

    Guide to Cathedrals in the United Kingdom for Christmas 2007

  • A few months ago, digby launched a series of articles essentially expressing confusion over how the archbishop of canterbury could support evolution in science class.

    Firedoglake » A Change Is Gonna Come 2006

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