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Theroux is firsthand witness to it all, traveling as the locals doby stifling train, rattletrap bus, illicit taxi, and mud-caked footencountering adventures only he could have: from the literary (sparring with the incisive Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk) to the dissolute (surviving a week-long bender on the Trans-Siberian Railroad).
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux: Book summary 2010
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No doby doubts that a Public Option Insurance Plan (POIP) proposed by the Democrats is the best way to ensure a comprehensive heathcare reform that will benefit all Americans.
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This calls for theneed to continue to pressPresident Obama to end the policies that have made this assault possible -- which he can doby taking steps now to reverse the Bush administration's 2002rule change authorizing the Army Corps to permit mining companies to use waterways as waste dumps.
Rob Perks: Making Sense of EPA's Mountaintop Removal Action 2009
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Ako môj otec hovorieval nám o tom, ako Taliani vtip Sicilians ich negro predkov z doby, kedy Moors obsadenej južné Taliansko a nazval ich "baklažán" ako rasistické hanlivý výraz.
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They're a bit doby and joanish, and let them get on with it, as long as he doesn't interfere with the institution of monarchy.
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A friend of mine who enlisted when I did, caught a severe case of the doby itch which kept him in an almost helpless condition for eight months.
A Soldier in the Philippines Needom N. Freeman
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One doctor said that it would require three or four years 'careful treatment to cure an acute case of doby itch in another climate.
A Soldier in the Philippines Needom N. Freeman
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Santa Fe with its narrow streets looking like alleys was built mostly of doby (mud bricks).
The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail William H. Ryus
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I was informed that it was doby itch, and that I should have it doctored before it spread.
A Soldier in the Philippines Needom N. Freeman
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They'd cut a trail in them doby flats like a bunch uh gallopin 'buffalo.
Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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