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  • "I’ll put my money on Melancholia .." barf, what a poser!. .name lars 'first film!

    Penelope Cruz Joining Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Not Doing Melancholia | /Film 2010

  • I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars 'style.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 Various

  • I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars 'style.

    Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars 'style.

    The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars 'style.

    Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • An 'lars' rains Jimmy Nowlett, the bullick-driver, gets bogged over his axle-trees back there on the Blacksoil Plains between two flooded billerbongs, an 'prays till the country steams an' his soul's busted, an 'his throat like a lime-kiln.

    Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

  • The folks here 'n Oldtown, Mr. Davenport, 's amazin' curus to hear the partic'lars 'bout them grand things 't you must ha 'seen; I 's a tellin' on 'em up to store how you 'd ben with lords' n 'ladies' n 'dukes' n 'duchesses,' n 'seen all the kingdoms o' the world, an 'the glory on' em.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • Mis 'Delily, Miss Deborah Kittery's maid, she told me all the partic'lars 'bout it, an' she ses there ain't no family so rich in silver and jewels, and sich, as Ellery Devenport's is, an 'hes ben for generations back.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • New Bedford Institute of Technology, including not more than forty - nine permanent positions, and including the sum of ten thousand dol - lars which is to be assessed upon the city of New Bedford as a part of the charges to be paid by said city to the commonwealth in the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifty-eight ...

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • For the maintenance of the Lowell textile institute, with the ap - proval of the commissioner of education and the trustees, in - cluding not more than sixty-one permanent positions, and includ - ing the sum of ten thousand dol - lars which is to be assessed upon the city of Lowell as a part of the state tax for each of the years nineteen hundred and fortj'-one and nineteen hundred and forty - two .....

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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