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Comic relief: It was at the gathering where we watched the concert DVD that another of my friends observed, “Tom Petty is really starting to look like Klaus Kinski.”
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Petty is my middle name EK New - petty-mania .. (shouldn't have started that) 8: 24 PM david cameron's forehead said ...
The Two Faced Ginga Bastard Newmania 2008
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Either way, Tom Petty is awesome and I would gladly trade anything about Bob Dylan for anything about Tom Petty.
TRAILERS TRASHED 2007
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As an actress and artist as well, Petty is truly a jack of all trades with enlightening designer also under her thumb.
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They arrived in Petty Harbour in 1784, where their first child, Michael, was born, and they moved on to Cape Broyle the following year.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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The only title Petty won when he was truly challenged was in 1979, when he edged Waltrip,
FOXSports.com News 2009
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There had been talk at first, both inside and outside the Francais, of a satirical piece called the Petty Bourgeois, but having nothing except the name in common with his unfinished novel similarly yclept.
Balzac 2003
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Major Hertel de Rouville, with upwards of three hundred and forty French and Indians, arrived at a pine bluff overlooking Deerfield meadow, about two miles north of the village -- a locality now known as Petty's Plain.
The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford
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There had been talk at first, both inside and outside the Francais, of a satirical piece called the Petty Bourgeois, but having nothing except the name in common with his unfinished novel similarly yclept.
Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910
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From the mate it was further learned that the pursuer had overhauled the pursued between Petit Goufre -- which he and the whole company called Petty Gulf -- and Grand Gulf; places named before the days of steam for their dangerous eddies.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884
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