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Jesse Jackson Defending Southern White MLB Umpires? What’s In It For Him 2008

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Jesse Jackson Defending Southern White MLB Umpires? What’s In It For Him 2008

I think the heavy glaymore was an ill-contrived weapon.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

It stipulated that the extraordinarily ill-contrived boundaries established by the Treaty in which it was incorporated should be guaranteed by the

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Then the constant hate-fest directed towards those who disagree with administration policy concerning this ill-conceived, ill-contrived, phony war for profits and control, that somehow escape any real attention in the corporate media as being biased and downright treasonous.

Think Progress » Former President Bush Blames ‘Bloggers’ for ‘Ugly’ Political Climate 2006

England a very ill-contrived one-horse chair, narrow, naked, shattered and shabby.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

But I will advise any, who from ill-contrived arrangements, or unforeseen misfortune, [FOOTNOTE: Of course it will be remembered that this was written before railways in Ireland had been constructed.] may find themselves on board the

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

It was a matter of little consequence to him that the gourbi, in which of necessity he was quartered, was uncomfortable and ill-contrived; he loved the open air, and the independence of his life suited him well.

Off on a Comet 2003

I had now exchanged my elegant apartment in Magdalen College, for a narrow, gloomy street, the most unfrequented of an unhandsome town, for an old inconvenient house, and for a small chamber ill-contrived and ill-furnished, which, on the approach of Winter, instead of a companionable fire, must be warmed by the dull invisible heat of a stove.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994