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  • OH OH and you should pick up something by deathprod aka helga sten. the black box set is quite satisfying!

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Haunting the ghost box, Infocult demands music 2007

  • Each had already provided himself with a number of pellets of camels 'dung, which were now placed in the holes, and the play of "helga" was now commenced.

    The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

  • It appeared, however, that there had been certain subsiding conditions to the play; and that the sailor had been in some way or another staked against his own clothes, for before being fully appropriated by his owner he was stripped to his shirt, and his habiliments, shoes and sou'wester included, were handed over to the sheik who had played second-best in the game of "helga".

    The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

  • This was while the two sheiks were playing their game of "helga," the "chequers" of the Saara, with Sailor Bill as their stake.

    The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

  • To right and left the startled desert hares scattered, and from the clumps of spiky helga the black vultures rose in heavy-winged flight.

    The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

  • Here and there the fork-like helga showed its purple blossom, and sometimes

    The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

  • _Anno Domini 1475 leth iag Erik Axelsson Ridder i Lagnö, bygia thette Slåt, Gud till loff, Christum, helga Christna tro till styrkielse, och thå var hustra min Elin Götstaffsdotter i

    Through Finland in Carts

  • He had been all out of sorts with himself since losing Sailor Bill in the game of helga; and he was desirous of obtaining some compensation for his ill luck, by capturing the three castaways who had so mysteriously disappeared.

    The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

  • I can tell that he don't care much for the old salt he has tricked me out of by his superior skill at that silly game of helga.

    The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

  • The holes in which the helga had been played on the proceeding night, were now resorted to.

    The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

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