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Sun 12/27/09 6: 22 PM thats not true, In the cop one, she goes downstairs screams, and mikah comes to her aid, WHile there both screaming she brutaly kills him then stomps violently upstairs … rockes back and forth (while mikahs body is downstairs) from 5 am to 10 at night, and when the police point the flashlight at her she wakes up from the trance confused!
'Paranormal Activity': Three super-scary alternate endings (SPOILER ALERT!) | EW.com 2009
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Yes they could all play at the Major League level but would they make it in the dodgers, rockes or D-Backs lineup?
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Yea, the rockes of the sea whiche for the daungier of the accesse, thoughte themselues exempte from the dinte of their hande, when thei perceiued by experience, thei ware noyous to sailers, with vnspeakeable labour did thei ouerthrowe and breake into gobettes.
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Thei passe ouer raginge floudes, mounteignes and rockes: roughes and plaines, thicke and thinne, if thei be commaunded.
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Of Tounes, thei made cities, and of villages, Tounes, Castles vpon the rockes, and in the valleis made thei the temples of the goddes.
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West, proportionally as it did before, the two wayes, the one within and the other without the Isle of S. Laurence, the dangers of priuie rockes and quicksands, the running seas, and the perils thereof, with the certaine and vndoubted signes of land.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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English miles ouer or there abouts, yet be there many rockes, shelues, sands and shallowes in it, so that the very chanell and place for sea roome, is not aboue 2. or 3. miles, yea and in some places not so much, for the ships of any great burthen, to make way in, but that they must either be set on ground or else constrained to run fowle one on another.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Curzola and the hilles of Dalmatia, in which channell be many rockes, and the channell not past 3 miles ouer, and we ankered before the towne of Curzolo.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Pilot told vs that wee were by his altitude not farre from a citie called Tanasary, in the kingdome of Pegu, and these his words were not true, but we were (as it were) in the middle of many Ilands, and many vninhabited rockes, and there were also some Portugales that affirmed that they knew the land, and knewe also where the citie of Tanasari was.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Lord sent a letter to the Ilanders as before, to grant vs leaue to water onely, and we would no further trouble them: notwithstanding our men comming on shoare found some of the poore Ilanders, which for feare of vs hid themselues amongst the rockes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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