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On February 20th 2009, melly wrote: for those of you saying this is not rhianna well if u google her tatoo on sholder u can see its the same one she has on this photo. chris should be ashamed of himself
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And I just LOVE the new look! on 18 Sep 2006 at 4: 01 pm melly
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Linktopia: Housewarming Edition 2006
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I reckon if the move to melly doesn't happen I'll just get my own place.
lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2006
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Sadly though, that means puppy will most likely not be coming with me to melly or to the solo house.
lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2006
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A sousand melly new eels [25] to deelest richar MD.
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In a little seashore pub in Bristow, a ragged gathering of rags are drinking and makeing melly before sailing to sea in serge of grate treashy on a sudden Isle far across the ocean.
In His Own Write John Lennon 2000
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Aunt Rilla sent melly out with a gun (Mullinix's) to shoot a hawk.
Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957
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Mrs. Bowles came, over to see what was the matter, bringing Baby Bowles, who, seeing how jolly everybody was, began clapping her tiny hands, and shouting, "Melly Kissme! melly Kissme!"
Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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A sousand melly new eels [25] to deelest richar MD.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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There was a _melly_ av a sumpshus kind for a whoile; but whether they tuk us, all white an 'wet, for a new breed av divil, or a new kind av dacoit, I don't know.
Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
jaime_d commented on the word melly
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
the OED says that "melly" is an archaic word for "honey." However, in context, it looks like Carlyle meant melee. Very odd for him to spell it this way.
March 6, 2011