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  • Eila used to toddle over to her house, just able to reach the doorbell and cuddle up on Beth's knee, looking at photo albums, eating "peppermint tablets" "oddfellows" - a big round mint, walking around her garden discussing plants and flowers, picking posies .

    Archive 2009-12-01 faerian 2009

  • Eila used to toddle over to her house, just able to reach the doorbell and cuddle up on Beth's knee, looking at photo albums, eating "peppermint tablets" "oddfellows" - a big round mint, walking around her garden discussing plants and flowers, picking posies .

    OLD friends faerian 2009

  • With their stripped beams, wooden floors and rolltop baths, the former servants' quarters at the Oddfellows bar and restaurant 01244 400001, oddfellows.biz, doubles from £175, room only make four decadent guest rooms, though be warned that noise filters up from the bar – there's live music from an acoustic band on Thursdays.

    Five great British city breaks 2011

  • Shamsie's interest, however, isn't in teasing out the intricacies and intimacies of a liaison between oddfellows, and Konrad's death in the American bombing of Nagasaki is the first of several rude surprises kick-starting the pace of the storyline.

    Adrienne Celt: War and Pieces: A Review of Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows 2009

  • The local oddfellows also has its own orphanage in burma....which members used to fly over their and visit....

    Exit, Voice, and Freedom: An Example, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The lodges of oddfellows in the Republic have done similar good work.

    Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

  • In connection with co-operation, I ought perhaps to mention also the friendly societies, the unities of oddfellows, the village and town clubs organized for meeting the doctors 'bills, the dress and burial clubs, the small clubs very common among factory girls, to which they contribute a few pence every week, and afterwards draw by lot the sum of one pound, which can at least be used for some substantial purchase, and many others.

    Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881

  • There's a possibility that an oddfellows coalition could turn against the war.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Where you like to get a cup of coffee/tea in the neighborhood? gosh ... so many good ones oddfellows, cafe petit rosa, and vita.

    CHS Capitol Hill Seattle capitolhillseattle.com 2010

  • February 1, 2009 12: 32 PM hey oddfellows: why does your site say that you take reservations if you don't? why does your voicemail say to leave your reservation, but then you don't return the message? enjoy your 15 minutes of new restaurant fame. don't be surprised when the initial buzz wears off and your communal table is empty - people generally like to be treated nicely in exchange for giving you their money.

    blogTO 2009

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