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Ms. Garten, whose TV show appears on the Food Network, is there on the cover, cheerfully plump, unapologetically proffering a tray full of merin gue-and-heavy-cream desserts.
A War on Good Taste Eric Felten 2010
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Her coyotes put up a merin deer and all of them chased it laughing, not too serious in the pursuit.
Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004
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Jumps High has put up the bodies of the merin deer on stakes as though they lived.
Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004
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They'd taken two yearling merin deer and a number of the fat grass hens.
Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004
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"_Pen mengy if mandy'll be bitchade padel for chorin a gry_, _or nasherdo for merin a gav-mush_."
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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In this manner was the terraqueous part of our system, when Parra Ghastha's mare, after havin 'taken a cowld collation on Barny Branagan's grass, was returnin' to her master's side o 'the merin; an' Barny Branagan's goats, havin 'tasted the sweets of Parra Ghastha's cabbages, were on their way acrass the said merin to their own side.
Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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On arriving at the merin which bounded the land he had owned, the coffin was laid down, and a loud and wailing keene took place over it.
The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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This river, which, though small at first, occasionally inflated itself to such a gigantic altitude, that it swept away cows, corn, and cottages, or whatever else happened to be in the way, was the march ditch, or merin between our farms.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"Now, you'll observe, that this river had been, for ages, the merin between the two farms, for they both belonged to separate landlords, and so long as it kept the O'Hallighan side of the little peninsula in question there could be no dispute about it, for all was clear.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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