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  • Al sinds de kritiek op zijn grafiek jaren geleden in zwang raakte, is er een speciale website realclimate.org waarop hij zich punt voot punt verweert tegen de maalstroom van verwijten en verdachtmakingen.

    Volkskrant: The Hockey Team Strikes Back « Climate Audit 2005

  • Some of my family, for aught I know, might ride in their coaches, when the grandfathers of some voke walked a-voot.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • _ Applied only, as far as I know, in the compound word _pumple-voot_, a club-foot.

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • You han't a-come athirt, since I'd my voot a-hurt,

    Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes

  • Some of my family, for aught I know, might ride in their coaches, when the grandfathers of some voke walked a-voot.

    IX. Containing Matter of No Very Peaceable Colour. Book IV 1917

  • "If you please, zir," said he, with a slight west-country burr, "a twenty-voot ring is too small for a thirteen-stone man."

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • How long they bode so they didn't know, but when they came to themselves there was a terrible thunder-storm a-raging, and they seemed to see in the gloom a dark figure with very thin legs and a curious voot, a-standing on the ladder, and finishing their work.

    Jude the Obscure 1896

  • "If you please, zir," said he, with a slight west-country burr, "a twenty-voot ring is too small for a thirteen-stone man."

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • How long they bode so they didn't know, but when they came to themselves there was a terrible thunder-storm a-raging, and they seemed to see in the gloom a dark figure with very thin legs and a curious voot, a-standing on the ladder, and finishing their work.

    Jude the Obscure 1894

  • "If you please, zir," said he, with a slight west-country burr, "a twenty-voot ring is too small for a thirteen-stone man."

    Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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