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Freind of mind both himself a porche 911. awsome car … with a lots of history backing it up.
First Look: Smoke and Engines from Fast and the Furious 4 « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Brilliant Tom, a government official shaking down a business to pay for his porche and a government official collecting a tax for a road are morally and economically equivalent.
Obama to Africa: Don't Imitate Me, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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According to the MASH site, I will drive my white porche to my very important, yet sometimes stressful, job as a successful attorney.
...And They All Lived Happily Ever After Jessica 2006
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According to the MASH site, I will drive my white porche to my very important, yet sometimes stressful, job as a successful attorney.
Archive 2006-01-01 Jessica 2006
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The holy fathers woulde haue but one mariage at ones, and that not in secrete but with open solemnitie eyther in the churche, or in the churche porche, and so that the priest be called to the matier.
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The entrance is by a discent of twelve stayers or degrees on euery part34: in the church porche, are sold only jewels and precious stones.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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I sawe one sole large and marueylous porche worthy of great estimation, proportioned according to the huge quantitie of the rest of the whole work, which was placed betwixt and continued in building from the one and the other of the mountaines hare lipped, and aboue arched, whose space betwixt as I doe coniecture was in measure sixe furlongs, and twelue paces.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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For the better vnderstanding and more perfect knowledge wherof, I conueyghed my selfe in at the open & spacious porche and enterance, within the which was an obscure and vast hollownes: which porche, together with the proud and stately buylding
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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I beheld a most fayre porche, past all sence to describe (for the incredible curiousnes thereof, as euer was built or deuised) and the rather for that our mother toung and vulgar speeche, may not afford apt and peculiar words, for such a piece of artificall worke.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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And the same woman dwelte in the house, vnder the porche wherof Rinaldo was gone to reste him selfe, vnto whome the daye before, the Marques resorted to disport him selfe that night, and in her house had secretly caused a bathe to be made, and a great supper to be prepared.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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