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i just set up e-mail account with progidy is there any way to get in english used telmex pagge to set up???? new arrival
e-mail 2008
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I've been listening to the Guardian's "World Cup Daily" poscasts, and do Englishmen really say "progidy," or is it just Sean Ingle?
Sports announcers beyond borders, or, a new nickname for the U.S. soccer team Peter Rozovsky 2010
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Pronounced by all beholders the most remarkable youthful progidy agoin '.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 Various 1868
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Here, too, the comic-singing accomplishment was brought into play so greatly to the admiration of one of the godfather's guests, an honest boat-builder, that he pronounced the little lad to be a "progidy."
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844
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As soon as he had finished his picture he carried it to the Pope, who was astonished, as at a progidy [sic] of art, highly extolling the exquisiteness of the features and limbs, the languishing pale deadness of the face, the unaffected sinking of the head: In a word, he had drawn to the life not only that privation of sense and motion which we call death, but also the very want of the least vital symptom.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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