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  • If you do that, in Perkin's world, you are anti-religion .... everything to the extreme with these right wingers.

    05/14/2005 2005

  • I smile at the thought of his being called handy, and I have to take a breath to stop myself crying out at the thought of his being called Perkin.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • I smile at the thought of his being called handy, and I have to take a breath to stop myself crying out at the thought of his being called Perkin.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • I smile at the thought of his being called handy, and I have to take a breath to stop myself crying out at the thought of his being called Perkin.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • Richard, Duke of York, brother of King Edward V, was yet alive, not having been murdered in the Tower, as had been supposed; and a man called Perkin

    London and the Kingdom - Volume I

  • I think I should like to call you "Perkin," if you don't mind.

    Peterkin Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • Dutch caricature of 'Perkin's Triumph' (1745), Charles is represented driving in a coach over the bodies of holders of Consols.

    Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

  • The Whig balladists retorted by describing the Tories as men who were engaged in trying to bring in "Perkin" from

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

  • Neil Perkin over at Only Dead Fishgave a presentation at theIMM conference in Surrey recently on the topic of the power of online communities.

    2009 February « One Size Fits One 2009

  • Neither her historical novel "Perkin Warbeck" (1830), nor her latest fiction, "Falkner" (1837), has much claim to remembrance; but "Lodore" (1835) is remarkable for being, as Professor Dowden was the first to discern, a veiled autobiography.

    Biography in the DNB 2010

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