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1. For Afternoonday they trudged on in front of the Troarar hills, some greener humps in the distance across dun plains of thinning ribbonleaves in rough gravel
2. We quickly remembered our “connection”; he introduced me to Ruth, and they said we will rent to you two because we can use you to dun tenants who don’t pay their rent
3. A fire could be seen, but a dull dun colored blanket
4. "Yo, dun, I told you I got you," Ashon said with conviction
5. “Wha ha ya dun tus?” Fell out of his mouth before his head collapsed
6. I choose for the Dun Bheagan, Vintage Bottling of eleven years old
7. Siri gave his name as David, and the co-pilot was Ji Dun
8. dun which was a fortified town on the
9. These accounts will report to Dun and Bradstreet,
10. According to the Dun & Bradstreet report, it was in excess of thirty million dollars
11. Dun dun dun duh, dun duh dun duh
12. Dun dun woo woo, dun dun woo woo
13. "But a fortnight late? Our creditors must have been kicking up merry hell," Ms Atkinson asked, "What would happen to our Dun and Bradstreet rating with this kind of thing
14. The Dun provided
15. Elowen followed Bo down the long mountain path to the Dun
16. the soil of the Dun
17. ‘I will not surrender the Dun without a fight,’ interrupted
18. coiled and steamed, and then the ground all around the Dun
19. For an hour the cannons pounded the Dun
20. move towards the Dun
21. The cavalry closed on the Dun; now in full gallop they
22. riders reached the foot of the Dun but could not find a way
23. Then, a little over fifty paces away from the foot of the Dun,
24. reached the foot of the Dun
25. stood back and massed on the Dun, waiting for the order to
26. the Dun and on the far side of the hill Elowen saw the surviving
27. buried close to the foot of the Dun
28. The scars of war remained visible on the Dun: great gouges of
29. need to stretch her legs, Elowen walked down to the Dun
30. Cramped in all kinds of dun cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely
31. The postilions, with a thousand gossamer gnats circling about them in lieu of the Furies, quietly mended the points to the lashes of their whips; the valet walked by the horses; the courier was audible, trotting on ahead into the dun distance
32. I have looked at her, in a state so dun and lethargic, that I have thought of nothing but the number of horizontal lines I could draw across her at the full, and the number of perpendicular lines with which I could intersect them
33. He saw the arch of her neck from the shoulder, as she bent her head; he saw the coil of dun hair; he watched her moving, gleaming arms
34. complexion was of the brownest, not of that dusky dun colour which
35. And by that way wend the herds innumerable of bellwethers and flushed ewes and shearling rams and lambs and stubble geese and medium steers and roaring mares and polled calves and longwoods and storesheep and Cuffe's prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bulllocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling, grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lusk and Rush and Carrickmines and from the streamy vales of Thomond, from the M'Gillicuddy's reeks the inaccessible and lordly Shannon the unfathomable, and from the gentle declivities of the place of the race of Kiar, their udders distended with superabundance of milk and butts of butter and rennets of cheese and farmer's firkins and targets of lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great hundreds, various in size, the agate with this dun
36. It was an ancient and a sad matron of a sedate look and christian walking, in habit dun beseeming her megrims and wrinkled visage, nor did her hortative want of it effect for incontinently Punch Costello was of them all embraided and they reclaimed the churl with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as most sacred and most worthy to be most sacred
37. The presence of guttural sounds, diacritic aspirations, epenthetic and servile letters in both languages: their antiquity, both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote, Garland of Howth, Book of Kells: their dispersal, persecution, survival and revival: the isolation of their synagogical and ecclesiastical rites in ghetto (S
38. Caris left Kingsbridge on a dun pony, heading for St-John-in-the-Forest
39. A little Arab mare used to carry my luncheon basket—one of the salted dun breed you got at Timbuctoo in the old days
40. I could see no marks to guide me, but the carpet was of a dun colour, which lends itself very well to examination
41. We were after rhebok, the dun kind, and I recollected how we had followed one beast, and both he and I had clean lost it
42. The ripe hue of the red and dun kine absorbed the evening sunlight, which the white-coated animals returned to the eye in rays almost dazzling, even at the distant elevation on which she stood
43. A reply, in the shape of "Why?" came as it were out of the belly of a dun cow in the stalls; it had been spoken by a milker behind the animal, whom she had not hitherto perceived
44. She was milking Old Pretty thus, and the sun chancing to be on the milking-side, it shone flat upon her pink-gowned form and her white curtain-bonnet, and upon her profile, rendering it keen as a cameo cut from the dun background of the cow
45. Meanwhile there was the snow and the low arch of dun vapor—there was the stifling oppression of that gentlewoman's world, where everything was done for her and none asked for her aid—where the sense of connection with a manifold pregnant existence had to be kept up painfully as an inward vision, instead of coming from without in claims that would have shaped her energies
46. from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless world, fading slowly
47. 24 On the other hand, the management team at bond-rating firm Moody’s awarded itself a large percentage of stock options when it was spun off from Dun & Bradstreet
48. The airport being fogged in, there was nothing for it but the birds cage themselves on the Dun Laoghaire boat bound for England, and there was nothing for it but the inhabitants of Finn's and myself should be down at the dock to watch them pull away late in the evening
49. "You are afraid of the Dun Laoghaire ferry boat that travels over the Irish Sea at night in great waves and dark storms
50. velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day’s sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white