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She would go on to marry an immigrant from a neighboring, old-country village and have six children.
Megan Smolenyak: To Lady Liberty on Her 125th Birthday Megan Smolenyak 2011
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She would go on to marry an immigrant from a neighboring, old-country village and have six children.
Megan Smolenyak: To Lady Liberty on Her 125th Birthday Megan Smolenyak 2011
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Executive chefs Eduard Frauneder and Wolfgang Ban are native Austrians and have strived to create an old-country feel in the dining room.
East Village Old Country Melanie Grayce West 2011
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There is no trace of old-country stuffiness about him; he belongs in a large landscape.
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His theory is that they are from some small old-country or outlander ship, which, hove to on the opposite tack to the
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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Middle-aged Italian labourers, old-country peasants who did not talk English, and who could not dance with the Irish girls, surrounded me.
Chapter 4 2010
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I take my father's old-country pride and work ethic with me to Y&R.
The Practice Alum Michael Badalucco Gives Daytime a Try on The Young and the Restless 2010
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In front of the governor's house they were gathered thickest, bawling sea-songs, circulating square faces, and dancing uproarious Virginia reels and old-country dances.
Chapter 16 2010
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So they find one for her – her great-great-aunt Eva, a Russian woman from the shtetl with old-country Orthodox Jewish values and traditions.
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My grandmother, before cancer overtook her, was one of the best cooks around, using old-country recipes from her memory.
Roomies 2010
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