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Pakistan hasclear stanes on Mumbai incidents and wants tocooperate with india to enable it to nab the perpetrators of these attacks on Mumbai.
Pakistan Prime Minister Gillani Calls National Security Conference Tuesday 2008
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October 28, 2008 at 1:44 pm the splort stanes awn yer compyooter luuk fresh…
Dat innocent look may work - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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This being done, thair wes nathing vthir but the one partie schuteand out and castand stanes furth of the said tolbuyt, and the vther pairtie schuteand hagbuttis in the same agane.
The Abbot 2008
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‘Ye are na a bad hand at flinging stanes,’ said the lad who first addressed me, as we now returned up the brae;
Lavengro 2004
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Castle; whereas, and behold, these London kirkyards are causeyed with through-stanes, panged hard and fast thegither; and my cloak being something threadbare, made but a thin mattress, so I was fain to give up my bed before every limb about me was crippled.
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A gled is a hawk, and that fierce and beautiful bird would have found its natural refuge among the stanes, or rocks, of the craggy moorlands which surround the “fortalice of gledstanes.”
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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"But if she picks as many stanes as a laddie, will ye gie her the same pay as me?" interrupted Robert, not wishing the interview to end without
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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'I thocht the chimney mun have been stricken, but if sae, stanes wud hae come through the roof.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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The dispytfull toungis of the wicked raylled upoun us, calling us traytouris and heretiques: everie ane provoked other to cast stanes at us.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Buxton (Bawdestanes, Bue-stanes), formed into a civil parish from Bakewell in 1895, has thus claims to be considered one of the oldest English spas.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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