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Examples
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; Michael Bracken's "Professionals," which reveals that Bracken is himself a real pro when it comes to crime shorts; and of course the one I was destined to read first, "Fat Larry's Night with the Alligators" by Ken Goldman.
Archive 2007-06-24 Bill Crider 2007
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Kevin Bracken (145½ pounds) and Garrett Lowney (211½) each battled back from a quarterfinal loss to finish fifth, earning the U.S. team an Olympic berth in each weight class.
USATODAY.com - Snowboarding sweep tops week's gold rush 2004
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** 145.5: Oscar Wood, Fountain, Colo., beat Kevin Bracken, Colorado Springs, pinning in 1: 47 and winning 3-0.
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Theatre Arts magazine said of the record: "Bracken is every inch a cockroach, and Miss Channing is perfection as the female feline who chose Shinbone Alley over the comforts of domestication."
Archy and Mehitabel 1935
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I've got a springer spaniel called Bracken, after Australian bowler Nathan Bracken, and a peke, Hoggard after England's Matthew Hoggard.
Jonathan Agnew: 'I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott' William Skidelsky 2010
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It is true that "Bracken" probably contains nothing that for sheer brave sexuality can be compared with a score of passages in
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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Also, his newborn son is named "Bracken," and not "Breckin," as I thought (and wrote) back when the young'un was born a few weeks back.
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"Bracken," cried Cameron, striding to him with hand outstretched, "what about the logs for the house?
The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail Ralph Connor 1898
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But Bracken declined to say whether the frigates had been used in any naval operations — such as the mining of Misrata port — in recent weeks.
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• Carolina Bracken is criminal justice research fellow at Civitas thinktank
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