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If you aknowledge that however, you might consider a feued between Google and Microsoft over that portion of Yahoo stock ...
Jessica Simpson is a Yahooligan Ben Barren 2006
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He took a qualm at the thought of the loss to be sustained by his posterity a thousand years hence; and going back to the house of the gentleman who feued the ground, he demanded, and readily obtained, the additional term of fifty years to be added to the lease.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Vested rights, those of the prelates, and the interests of the nobles to whom, in the troubles, they had feued parts of their property, were thus secured; while the preachers were put off with a humble portion.
John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905
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Vested rights, those of the prelates, and the interests of the nobles to whom, in the troubles, they had feued parts of their property, were thus secured; while the preachers were put off with a humble portion.
John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878
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An 'it's no merely' at ye ha'e the means, but there's no anither that has the richt; for they're yer ain fowk, 'at ye gaither rent frae, an' at's been for mony a generation sattlet upo 'yer lan' -- though for the maitter o 'the lan', they ha'e had little mair o 'that than the birds o' the rock ha'e ohn feued -- an 'them honest fowks wi' wives an 'sowls o' their ain!
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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He took a qualm at the thought of the loss to be sustained by his posterity a thousand years hence; and going back to the house of the gentleman who feued the ground, he demanded, and readily obtained, the additional term of fifty years to be added to the lease.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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Having acquired, for a large sum of money, the ground which he had formerly feued out for the erection of the hotel, lodging-houses, shops, &c., at
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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In 1772, no more than 5 or 6 houfes were to be feen between the weft end of the royalty and Blacknefs; flow upwards of 100 acres have been feued out, in the fame diftrift for building on, and upwards of 4000 people fettled in it.
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He haa kid down by 4 tegular plan, above la acres of ground, with ftraets 48 feet wide, and a fijtfare of 9 acoeq is the middle, pajft «f which! is feued and built. '
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All we cer - tainly know is, that Sapor was hot taken, nor Valerian re** feued from his ensel bondage.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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