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"I 'spect you-alls don't pay no' tention 'tall to dis dinner," grumbled
The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis
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"You paid the most of your '' tention 'to them, then?" continued Wade maliciously.
Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887
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Does former President Carter know his statement on racisim being behind all this disrespect of President Obama is ludicrous and will only spark more unrest in the USA, and God forbid can even be the actual cause of more tention or even rioting in the USA?
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I mean that dude, the main vampire dude Robert dude, He is actually good to stare at for a few hours, really really good ... but throughout the whole movie i was so filled with tention from these two supposedly in-love immortal/mortal combination I was waiting soooo long for there to be some kind of sexy kinky neck biting romping action.
No ifs, ands or butts zombietron 2009
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The GOP is adding to the racial tention that we all are witnessing from governmental protestors.
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Baley interviews anyone remotely connected to anyone else and undercovers much political tention between Fastolfe and the head of the Auroran Robotics Institute, Dr. Amadiro.
Archive 2010-04-01 Kev 2010
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Baley interviews anyone remotely connected to anyone else and undercovers much political tention between Fastolfe and the head of the Auroran Robotics Institute, Dr. Amadiro.
Revisiting The Robot Novels Kev 2010
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Never has the line “Shut down all the trash compactors on the deee-tention level” been rapped to greater effect.
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Never has the line “Shut down all the trash compactors on the deee-tention level” been rapped to greater effect.
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[1] A narrative of participants and chronology of the D.partment of Justice Office of Legal Counsel opinions on the CIA's D.tention and Interrogation Program prepared by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of the US Senate Intelligence Committee was declassified by Attorney General Eric Holder on April 19, 2009: intelligence. senate.gov/pdfs/olcopinion. pdf.
The Complicit General Sands, Philippe 2009
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