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It should last until we go to minot again next year.
Lessons learned from the Minot road trip Tyler 2009
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April 15, 2010 20:17pm scientifically proven, i used to hunt these in my backyard in minot, nd
Umm, I Believe the Cashews Are In Aisle 12, Right Next to the Unicorns 2010
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Cereals: a minot of grain could be 37 litres or 1.05 bushels.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Cereals: a minot of grain could be 37 litres or 1.05 bushels.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The cannock chase is the process by which, no matter which part of the box often, you will always extract most of the empty sachets before pinning down an actual minot, or 'cannock'.
The Meaning of Liff Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1983
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The grain crops in Lower Canada are taken in the minot, and not in the bushel, except in the townships.
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An arpent is about one-seventh less than an acre; and a minot about one-eighth (some say one-twelfth) more than a bushel.
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The habitant paid usually in _cens et rentes_ twenty sols (about twenty cents) for each arpent (192 feet) of frontage; instead of cash usually he might pay in kind -- a live capon or a small measure (demi-minot) of grain for each arpent.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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A screen hung with white and purple lilacs formed the background of one fair bride, a hanging curtain of Jacque-minot roses formed the appropriate setting of another.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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'One fat fowl of the brood of the month of May or twenty sols (sous) for each lineal arpent of frontage'; or 'one minot of sound wheat or twenty sols for each arpent of frontage' is the way in which the obligation finds record in some title-deeds which are typical of all the rest.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916
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