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The Fifth Dimension (SF and fantasy zine) has its June issue out with fiction by Robert E. Porter, Fredrick Obermeyer, and Paul Williams, as well as potry and more.
June 2009 2009
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The Fifth Dimension (SF and fantasy zine) has its June issue out with fiction by Robert E. Porter, Fredrick Obermeyer, and Paul Williams, as well as potry and more.
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Anybody doesnt like these pitchers dont like potry, see?
Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey Charlie LeDuff 2008
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Anybody dont like potry go home see Television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses.
Robert Frank's Unsentimental Journey Charlie LeDuff 2008
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‘Large book at home — full of notes — music, picture, science, potry, poltic; all tings.’
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Besides potry and the flute, Mr. Dawkins, I must tell you, had some other parshallities — wiz., he was very fond of good eatin and drinkin.
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All this is as easy as to drink; but it's not potry, bar'net, nor natral.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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School so regular, you wouldn't ha 'been able to read all the potry on the Valentines like you can now, _would_ yer now?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891 Various
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Poet to dictate blank verse to the pretty young secretary, who curled both feet round one leg of her chair, told him that she "loved his potry more'n anythink she'd ever read" and asked how all the hard words like "chrysoprase" and "asphdel" were spelt.
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Take my advice, honrabble sir: listen to an umble footman: it's genrally best in potry to understand perffickly what you mean yourself, and to igspress your meaning clearly affterward: the simpler the words the better, praps.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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