Although tawny owls are reputed to have a hoot, this one whistled, which is probably why it is often referred to in the books as a screech owl. |
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Princeton University sent a team that was reputed to be the best equipped, with the latest telescopes and spectroscopes needed for the job. |
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The paper also reviews the explanations commonly given for the reputed liberalism of old money. |
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Glamis was reputed to be the most haunted place in Britain, and Elizabeth has heard strange noises ever since she was a child. |
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I had to check the dictionary to discover that Boeotians were inhabitants of a city-state northwest of Attica, reputed to be dull and stupid. |
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It is well reputed for its fine teaching but the pinnacle of its fame is its glorious chapel with its murals of intricate artwork. |
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It's doubtful if either has the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers. |
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So I didn't get to see the umpteen varieties of lizards, snakes, flying lemur or pangolin, which are reputed to haunt the forests. |
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Ancient Egyptians were reputed to have a knowledge of the blood circulatory system that would rival a doctor of today. |
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Because it is reputed to affect the menstrual cycle and to be an abortifacient, its use in pregnancy and lactation is to be avoided. |
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Rhino horn is said to make men sexually unstoppable, and asparagus, bananas, eels, oysters, figs and ginseng are all reputed to get you going. |
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It is reputed in Japanese culture that noisy eating is a compliment to the cook. |
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Lithium may be responsible for the reputed benefit of certain spring waters to patients with mental disease. |
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Another hormone reputed to be a veritable fountain of youth is dehydroepiandrosterone, which is naturally produced in the adrenal glands. |
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Competition judges said they were impressed with the grade one listed building of Celtic origin, which St Patrick is reputed to have visited. |
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One was bought 20 years ago by a real estate developer, who is reputed to be deliriously happy. |
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It is reputed as a drug which dispels wind from the stomach and counteracts spasmodic disorders. |
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The Durranis belong to a tribe that straddles Pakistan and Afghanistan and is widely reputed to be fair-minded, charitable and moderate. |
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Not to be missed on a trip to this area is the infamous Runnel Stone, reputed to have wrecked more than 27 ships. |
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Meet any software professional from even the most reputed firms and all they do is crib. |
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It has banned a number of sectarian and fundamentalist groups reputed to have links with terrorist groups. |
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He rarely left his house, and was reputed to spend twelve hours a day at work in his studio. |
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It is reputed that North America's best-attended Elvis impersonation contests took place in Quebec. |
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The camp is believed to be somewhere in the third world and the activists are reputed to have international funding from an unknown source. |
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Her son-in-law, Henry Bridgewater, was reputed to be the richest black man in St Louis. |
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It's doubtful if either of the two gentlemen have the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers. |
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She could not or would not cook and her mother-in-law was reputed to be the best cook in Egypt. |
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Jane Davenant was a natural suspect in view of her son William Davenant's reputed willingness to believe that Shakespeare begot him. |
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Motherwort is reputed to release tension caused by emotional and mental stress. |
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The city is named for its magnificent Roman baths, which are reputed to have the power to heal the sick. |
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Only the Great Hall remains but it is a beautiful, ancient building and contains what is reputed to be King Arthur's Round Table. |
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At 25, her success has been formidable, but she is oddly unhelpful about applying her reputed intelligence to an understanding of it. |
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Botham is reputed to have run him out on purpose because he was scoring too slowly. |
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He was extremely fit and is reputed to have been one of the fastest runners in the village and also regularly won local cycle races. |
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At low water, its yellow sands surround a series of isolated rocks, reputed to be the stepping-stones of a giant. |
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Eventually the Luddite bands were tracked down and the reputed leaders executed or transported. |
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He had already taken Cologne, where he was reputed to have massacred 11,000 virgins. |
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Just a couple of months back Lynn was reputed to have talked him out of an early marriage because she felt he wasn't ready to settle down. |
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There is a tamarind tree next to the tomb, which is reputed to be as old as the tomb itself. |
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While books by Indian authors are flying off the shelves, tandoori fare is reputed to have overtaken fish and chips as the national favorite. |
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Mrs Ward was reputed to have the best herrings outside the fish markets in Dublin and Wicklow. |
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Secular Americans may be further discomfited to learn that their government's top lawyer is reputed to believe that tabby cats are satanic. |
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The reputed last native speaker of Cornish, Dolly Pentreath, died in 1777 with no one left to speak the language to. |
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But, even though she was reputed to be somewhat headmasterly over the usage of English, she had a charming and engaging social presence. |
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They live by their fishings, and are reputed to be the best boatsmen and cragsmen in the archipelago. |
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He was reputed to have been a direct descendant of the O'Kellys of Gallen, one of the seven septs of ancient Laois. |
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Jealousy is reputed to be one of their worst faults, but Taureans are no more inclined to jealousy than any of the other signs. |
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One of her donations to the museum is reputed to be the only egg in existence of the extinct, flightless dodo bird. |
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They were also taken to the machair to see the famous bloodstone with which the Morrisons are reputed to have hit the Macaulays in a clan battle. |
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Well, the world focused on West Africa for more than a week as a reputed slave ship carrying as many as 250 children was reported off the coast. |
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Mary at 78 years was well known and respected and reputed as a grand old lady. |
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Dod is reputed to have had archery in his blood, one of his ancestors having commanded the English bowmen at Agincourt. |
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The Bretons were reputed to be fickle and changeable, and were often reproached for the death of Arthur. |
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Hidden from view, its famous covered souks, markets, thread like capillaries for a reputed 30 km. |
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The portrait, reputed to be the most widely reproduced photograph in the world, has come to symbolize not just the ideals of the Cuban revolution but of revolution in general. |
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At any of the participating universities, the Erasmus parties are reputed to be the most multicultural and exciting. |
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Before his marriage, he was reputed to have fathered a child by a Filipino woman during his service in that country. |
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The online university has made it very easy for business professionals to earn a reputed and widely acknowledgeable degree from the comfort of their home or office. |
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Placing slices of lemon along their pathways is also reputed to be an effective repellent, as is a mixture of bicarbonate of soda and black pepper. |
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This is not biltong, but medicine reputed to cure various ills. |
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Cleopatra Thea of Syria was reputed to be far more beautiful and cunning than Cleopatra VII, yet she is always overlooked in favour of her descendant! |
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They are reputed persons of a singular, wayward, and eccentric character. |
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The Creeks were reputed to be a hospitable people skilled in diplomacy. |
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In this case a lady reputed to be of easy virtue and a girlfriend of one of the local policemen, had made statements intimidating the men for trial. |
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The pushcarts are stocked with the latest varieties from reputed brands, as branded companies have realised the benefits of going to the customers. |
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The restored clocks are reputed to be accurate to one second in one million years and are controlled by a radio signal from the caesium atomic clock at Rugby in the Midlands. |
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Even in those straitened times, Hilal's family was reputed to have several thousand, although the sheikh was too old to ride a camel and rarely saw them. |
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I feel a link to it because, although Campden is far from my neck of the woods, I know the village and the reputed home of one of the protagonists very well indeed. |
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Castor oil is a reputed remedy for rheumatic problems and colic. |
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Young recounts the familiar story of Lincoln's meeting with Harriet Beecher Stowe, and his reputed claim that her novel served as a catalyst for war. |
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Alexander the Great is reputed to have gone down in a diving bell, while Roman urinatores apparently salvaged cargo from a wreck 20m deep off the south of France. |
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In round five and six, Mesi's reputed power shook Jirov but he hung tough to counter with stinging combinations on the Buffalo bruiser, who does not have racehorse speed. |
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The score line was no indication how the game went about as the Police forwards played like terriers in the loose to match their reputed opponents. |
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The ladies Cup, for which yachts competed at Rosses Point at the weekend is reputed to be the oldest perpetual trophy in the world for which sailors still compete. |
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Caesars is reputed to be the hottest strip joint in Kingston. |
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No king touched so much for the king's evil, that class of unpleasant glandular and scrofulous disorders that kings were reputed to be able to cure. |
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Her father, who owns a bank, is reputed to be the wealthiest man in Spain. |
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His second ordeal is to be turned into an old hag, disguised in the clothes of an old aunt reputed to be a witch in order to escape from Mr F again. |
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As for the notion of a vast right-wing conspiracy, Farah and other reputed members say that it never existed. |
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It is reputed to be haunted, and many Collinsport locals look upon the house and its denizens with a mix of suspicion and fear. |
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Supposing either to be coetaneous with the reputed date of 1133, the room was built and fitted up before the Royal-hall of the Westminster Palace. |
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The yellow anaconda's close relative is the green anaconda which is reputed to be the world's largest snake species. |
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The gudgeon is reputed a fish of excellent taste, and to be very wholesome. |
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Mosley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne is reputed to be the first street in the world to be lit by electric light. |
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Recent analyses have shown that the reputed silk in the barrow at Hohmichele was misidentified. |
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It is also used by Down District Council which has its headquarters in Downpatrick, the reputed burial place at Saint Patrick. |
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Among these gifts was reputed to be a piece of the true cross, a true treasure for the devout Saxon king. |
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Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, who were drawn by the reputed healing properties of the waters. |
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The study of qabalah is reputed to offer a multitude of spiritual benefits. |
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The university is highly reputed both in Nepal as well as abroad, and runs various programs in a wide number of academic disciplines. |
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She was reputed to have had many lovers, and Nessim was regarded as a mari complaisant. |
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She is reputed to have had paintings of her burnt that did not match the iconic image she wished to be shown. |
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The Cookes House is reputed to have been his home during the Second Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania. |
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Some booksellers sold the novel in brown paper bags, and the Bishop of Wakefield, Walsham How, is reputed to have burnt his copy. |
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Nevertheless, sailors reputed to be good shantymen were valued and respected. |
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The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. |
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He is also reputed for introducing shampoo and therapeutic massage to the United Kingdom. |
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His imprisonment was not reputed a rigorous one, although he remained in England for eleven years. |
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What was reputed to be James IV's body recovered by the English did not have the iron chain round its waist. |
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His home is reputed to have been at Tor Castle above the River Lochy, near Seangan. |
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It contains the Fairy Flag and is reputed to have been inhabited by a single family for longer than any other house in Scotland. |
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They are largely resistant to tularemia, but are reputed to suffer from canine distemper in captivity. |
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The City is reputed to be the third fastest growing area of Scotland in terms of population. |
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Some Pardons are reputed for their length, and they all finish by large meals and popular feasts. |
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These witches were reputed to use undomesticated toads as ingredients in their liniments and brews. |
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With Ottoman protection and a host of destitute immigrants, the coastline soon became reputed for piracy. |
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Mr William Richards of Chapel Street is reputed to be the last person to have seen her. |
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Within the walls is a well 200 feet deep and another in the centre of the keep is reputed to have been still deeper. |
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There is reputed to be a wishing well on its southern slope, which requires the wisher to climb up from the south without looking back. |
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The Icelandic Althing, founded in 930 AD, is reputed to be the oldest working parliament in the world. |
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Tangier has been reputed as a safe house for international spying activities. |
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The Manchus of the early Qing dynasty had excellent shooting skills and their arrows were reputed to be capable of penetrating two persons. |
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These pictographs are reputed to be similar to the earliest characters confirmed to be written Chinese. |
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The name evolved into the imaginary General Ludd or King Ludd, who, like Robin Hood, was reputed to live in Sherwood Forest. |
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The conversion of three brothers named Kassapa followed, with their reputed 200, 300 and 500 disciples, respectively. |
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Ravenglass is reputed as a birthplace of Saint Patrick along with Banwen in South Wales. |
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The stained glass window in the Little Church of St Francis Funtley, Fareham, Hampshire is reputed to have been designed by him. |
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At Fatfield the river passes beneath Worm Hill, around which the Lambton Worm is reputed to have curled its tail. |
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But every market was reputed to be run the same way. The Toby was the godfather. |
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David, a reputed harp player and psalmist, becomes Saul's armor-bearer and official soother. |
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Overall, critics raved about the reputed conclusion to Kage Baker's Company novels. |
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Known reputed uses include lovage as an aphrodisiac, foxglove for heart disease and a yellow woodland flower, lesser celandine, for haemorrhoids. |
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A reputed leader in data center infrastructure management solutions, Modius Inc. |
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Though E-mail is reputed to be a quick medium of communication, make sure to use your Spell Check function under Tools in your Toolbar. |
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Patrick's reputed grave is in Downpatrick, in the Church of Ireland cathedral graveyard. |
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Mahatma Gandhi was a stretcher-bearer, and it was after Spion Kop it was reputed that he first noted his feelings toward passive r esistance. |
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Suspects include reputed captain Charles Stango, 71, and 72-year-old Frank Nigro, said to be a consigliere, or adviser. |
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His remains were reputed to have ended in the bay of Hailemouth near Padstow. |
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Which is why the Kenilworth-based Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Attention Deficit Disorder Centre has a reputed 10,000 clients on its books right now. |
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Vivaldi is reputed to have been a first rate violinist, his published scores springboards for flights of wild virtuoso extemporization. |
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The section concludes with a chapter on Swinburne and Joyce and the reputed English vice of flagellomania. |
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In addition to its unparalleled scalability, modularity, integrability and robustness, the Documentum platform is reputed for its strong compliance and e-discovery solutions. |
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Made from fresh plastic of reputed trade mark,Calculator 10 digit of large display of reputed trade mark,Coaster of reputed trade mark,Dinner plate Bone china of. |
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Features a typical Spaniard menu including piquillos peppers, Spanish omelet, baby lamb chops, cochinillo a la Segoviana and a well reputed seafood paella. |
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Some years ago it was reputed that the sheep used to do commando rolls over cattle grids to get off the moors so they could wander down into the village. |
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Naturally derived from kudzu vines and part of a Chinese herbal treatment reputed to prevent alcoholism, the chemical daidzin may prove a poent drug to combat alcohol abuse. |
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If you are one of the latter, then this month's recipe is perfect for a romantic dessert because it contains some ingredients that are reputed to be natural aphrodisiacs. |
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Visitorships in reputed universities can significantly advance careers. |
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Brine was generally reputed a high Calvinist and a supralapsarian. |
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It is reputed to contain trout and is a popular location for wild camping. |
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Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? |
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He is known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. |
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A house in Hadlow reputed to be the birthplace of William Caxton was dismantled in 1936 and incorporated into a larger house rebuilt in Forest Row, East Sussex. |
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Burpless cucumbers are sweeter and have a thinner skin than other varieties of cucumber, and are reputed to be easy to digest and to have a pleasant taste. |
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This derives from the Cornish name for the Seven Stones reef, on the reputed site of the lost land's capital and the site of the notorious wreck of the Torrey Canyon. |
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The economically important very deep coal mining in the course of the First Industrial Revolution has required highly reputed specialized studies for mining engineers. |
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The stormy backdrop of Hannibal Crossing The Alps is reputed to have been inspired by a storm over the Chevin in Otley while he was staying at Farnley Hall. |
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This is normally impassable but is reputed to dry out on rare occasions. |
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Select groups which the Raj reformers wanted to monitor statistically included those reputed to practice female infanticide, prostitutes, lepers, and eunuchs. |
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During his lifetime, Marlowe was reputed to be an atheist which, at that time, held the dangerous implication of being an enemy of God and, by association, the state. |
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There is, perhaps, at present hardly a house they are reputed to visit. |
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Charles Dickens is reputed to have set his novel Hard Times in the city, and while it is partly modelled on Preston, it shows the influence of his friend Mrs Gaskell. |
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Throughout William and Mary's marriage, William had only one reputed mistress, Elizabeth Villiers, in contrast to the many mistresses his uncles openly kept. |
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The next stop was the house of the gup, who was once the reputed strongman of Merak, famous for being able to lift a young bull yak and place it on his back. |
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If you are stupid enough to download the attached file, it will, say IBM and AOL, 'destroy Navigator and Explorer' and is reputed to make Melissa look like a choirgirl. |
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