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If you play games, and havent heard-of or read anything by Richard B...
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Stealing glances with a fool from a seldom heard-of band and referring to Barrymore as "Michael Barrymore of the tellay."
Z-List Celebs Get Discount Plastic Surgery; Remain Z-List Regardless 2006
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Army (Apla) and the seldom heard-of Azanian National Liberation
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On the other hand, unless the Demon had some un - heard-of way of looking through solid roofs and walls, he would see only the lairs and not what or who moved in them under cover.
Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972
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"I knew your Grandfather Laughton, my child, and since I came here I have heard-of you," he finished, with innate delicacy.
Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hemphill 1911
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Where is any other besides Griselda who, not only without a wet eye, but emboldened by a valiant and invincible courage, could suffer the sharp rigors, and never the like heard-of proofs, made by the Marquess?
The Story of Griselda Boccaccio 1907
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The alternate pages of text are wholly commonplace, and very largely misleading -- thanks, chiefly, to an apparent system of attributing traits, heard-of as "Indian," to the tribe whose page chances to have most space left.
The Indian of Commerce Anonymous 1901
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Napoleon: all the Great Men I ever heard-of have this as the primary material of them.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The year's most spectacular eruptions apart from those of Mel Gibson put Iceland's previously little heard-of Eyjafjallajökull volcano on the map of infamy.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The year's most spectacular eruptions apart from those of Mel Gibson put Iceland's previously little heard-of Eyjafjallajökull volcano on the map of infamy.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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