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Usage examples of murray.

He had ambitions, had this mallee river-bred man, that were not bounded by the mallee-rim on the south side of the Murray, or by the box and gums on the north bank.

He spent four hours a day alongside the owner, Murray Saltzman, a stoop-shouldered, hardworking widower who filled Lo Manto with sorrowful stories of lost lives and ruined bodies left in the wreckage of a war and a hatred he would never come to understand.

Murray Saltzman also exposed Lo Manto to his first taste of Camorra treachery.

The Merdeka had been the nearest equivalent to home for Allan, Tyne and Murray.

One scene had been of Murray, Allan Cunliffe and himself breakfasting at the Merdeka Hotel after a heavy night.

Sir John Franklin, De Haven Grinnell, Sir John Murray, Kane, Melville, Hall, Nansen, Schwatka, Greely, Peary, Ross, Gerlache, Bernacchi, Andree, Amsden, Amundson and others have all been striving to storm the frozen citadel of mystery.

KILLEN, the puntman, and his mate Tom had just swung back their pontoons after letting the old Pride of the Murray and her barges drop through from the wharf, when the exhaust of an incoming steamer was borne pantingly on the languid evening air.

The act brought about an exchange of civilities between the head of this firm and Le Quoy, so that when the latter came to New York, desiring to invest in a country store until his fortunes should revive, Murray referred him to his friend Judge Cooper, under whose advice the Frenchman established himself in Cooperstown.

Murray Lachlan Young, a scribbler of doggerel, disappeared now, a nine-minute wonder, not the real deal like me.

This time it was the automatic signal which told her that Murray had activated the telescreen in his room.

Murray, meanwhile, has been conspicuously ungreeted by my grandparents during all of the helloing, being only gruntingly acknowledged.

Murray was a man of experience and ability through whom communications with Talleyrand were already established, Adams answered.

Instead of Murray alone serving as minister plenipotentiary, Adams nominated Patrick Henry and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth to join Murray as envoys to France, making a commission of three.

It was hard to imagine any grounds for blackmail: Baumer seemed to have kept his nose clean, and he was here in an official capacity, not a fugitive like Murray.

Vogt and Edmond Hamilton as well as Heinlein, and recommended that, in addition, teachers sample Ray Bradbury, Murray Leinster, and Clark Ashton Smith.