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  • That was enough to persuade Lale and Gita to settle in Melbourne, too.†   (source)
  • The ones who done for us in Vancouver and Melbourne and—†   (source)
  • The Australian mountain pygmy possum was known only from fossils until a live one was found in a garbage can in Melbourne.†   (source)
  • No, I told her about Lord Melbourne.†   (source)
  • He stumbles from the house, up the lane, and doesn't stop till he reaches Melbourne in Australia.†   (source)
  • Mae now had customer contacts in Clinton, Louisiana, and Putney, Vermont; in Marmaris, Turkey, and Melbourne and Glasgow and Kyoto.†   (source)
  • Soon they had reservations on a plane leaving at 7:05 the following evening, destination Melbourne, changing in Singapore.†   (source)
  • I stopped in Melbourne to get some gas and thought of Jim Morrison singing about how people are strange.†   (source)
  • Marvin often lost, setting out one day for Melbourne, Florida and nearly ending up Down Under.†   (source)
  • My beloved family in Melbourne in 1997—my wife, Mary, and our children, Sophie, Thomas and Bridie.†   (source)
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  • I'm from Melbourne.†   (source)
  • In Melbourne, Australia, he had insisted that he have a day off.†   (source)
  • He had a date at eleven o'clock in the Second Naval Member's office, in the Navy Department up in Melbourne.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, I share the feelings expressed by Prime Minister Melbourne, who, when irritated by the criticism of the then youthful historian T. B. Macaulay, remarked that he would like to be as sure of anything as Macaulay seemed to be of everything.†   (source)
  • He also has a degree in economics from Oxford and a law degree from Melbourne.†   (source)
  • What followed was a quick deluge of news and information about the insurance world of Melbourne.†   (source)
  • The men …. they spoke about trouble they were having in Krakow and Melbourne and Vancouver.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 26 Tuesday, July 15–Thursday, July 17 Blomkvist flew from Melbourne to Alice Springs.†   (source)
  • And after Melbourne and Vancouver …." said the man with the mustache.†   (source)
  • I should have thought that he'd have come to Melbourne.†   (source)
  • Oh—Peter, it's today you're going up to Melbourne, isn't it?†   (source)
  • I thought she was in Melbourne every day, doing shorthand and typing.†   (source)
  • I've got to go up to Melbourne, to the Navy Department.†   (source)
  • It was dark before they finished and they drove back to Melbourne in the rain.†   (source)
  • They've got a lot of cases from the north in the Melbourne hospitals right now.†   (source)
  • It said that in Melbourne about fifty per cent of the population appeared to be affected.†   (source)
  • They must have been made somewhere here in Melbourne.†   (source)
  • Melbourne is the most southerly major city in the world, so we'll be near to the last.†   (source)
  • On the Tuesday morning Peter Holmes went to Melbourne in his little car.†   (source)
  • Most of the boys have got girl friends in Melbourne here, about a quarter of them married.†   (source)
  • She said, "It's going to be very hot in Melbourne today, Peter.†   (source)
  • Then he was in the train for Melbourne, on his way back to his work.†   (source)
  • It's just about impossible to get a bed in Melbourne—anywhere.†   (source)
  • Peter Holmes took a can with him to Melbourne one day and visited John Osborne.†   (source)
  • There'll be life here in Melbourne long after we've gone.†   (source)
  • Melbourne said—†   (source)
  • On the ship over, they befriended a couple who told them about their family in Melbourne, with whom they intended to live.†   (source)
  • Melbourne said——" "If you tell me what Melbourne said I'll stop this car and put you out, right here!†   (source)
  • "Very well, if you won't let me tell you what Melbourne said I'll put it in my own words: the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise.†   (source)
  • The client, a heating/airconditioning advertiser from Melbourne, Australia, asked if he could add her to his professional network and she readily agreed.†   (source)
  • He offered to make her an honorary member of the MHAPB, the Melbourne Heating and Air-Conditioning Providers Guild, formerly the Melbourne Heating and Air-Conditioning Providers Brotherhood, and she said she would be flattered.†   (source)
  • An unknown person with the biblical signature of Joshua, who was part of Plague's or possibly Trinity's mysterious international network, had left an envelope for him at the central information desk at Melbourne airport.†   (source)
  • Krakow and Vancouver and Melbourne.†   (source)
  • Melbourne said once, that the only real duties of government were to prevent crime and preserve contracts, to which I will add one thing since I find myself reluctantly in the twentieth century: and to provide for the common defense.†   (source)
  • Mae went to Helena's site, read one of the essays, congratulated her, told her it was brilliant, and sent out a zing telling everyone that Helena from Melbourne/New Mexico was a voice to be reckoned with, and that they should support her work in any way they could.†   (source)
  • Max scoured the faces until he found Julie Teller, a pretty girl from Melbourne with whom he had exchanged letters over the summer.†   (source)
  • From Melbourne?†   (source)
  • In 1995, after dancing with the Houston Ballet for nearly sixteen years, I decided to join the Australian Ballet as a principal artist and move to Melbourne.†   (source)
  • Then Dr. Mathilda Burns, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Melbourne, proceeded to reconstruct every single mistake he and Tyler had made during the battle.†   (source)
  • Julie told Max a funny story about her little brother learning to surf back in Melbourne; Max shared with her a bit about Chicago and his dad.†   (source)
  • POSTSCRIPT — Melbourne, 2003.†   (source)
  • By the beginning of July, when Broken Hill and Perth went out, few people in Melbourne were doing any more work than they wanted to.†   (source)
  • But John Osborne told me yesterday before we came away they got several cases of this radiation sickness in Melbourne, as of Thursday night.†   (source)
  • He drove her up to Melbourne the next day to look for a motor mower; they went with Jennifer in her carrying basket on the back seat.†   (source)
  • After lunch, smoking before they did the washing up, she said, "I don't think I want to go to Melbourne again, Peter.†   (source)
  • She took a fresh bottle of brandy from the larder and went out to the car, and started it, and drove off on the road to Melbourne.†   (source)
  • But Melbourne is the last big city?†   (source)
  • On the Friday Peter Holmes drove up to Melbourne in his little car, ostensibly to try and find a garden seat.†   (source)
  • Refreshed by a spell on deck, they now had time to think about what story they could tell about their cruise when they got back to Melbourne.†   (source)
  • Nearly forty per cent of my ship's company have got themselves tied up with girls in Melbourne—married, some of them.†   (source)
  • He drafted a short signal in acknowledgment and gave it to the signals officer for transmission via Melbourne, with a copyfor the First Naval Member.†   (source)
  • We went into Melbourne yesterday.†   (source)
  • Before the first race was over the organizers had put in a hurried call to Melbourne for two more ambulances, the two already allocated to the meeting being busy.†   (source)
  • In former days the truck had been a delivery van for a great Melbourne store; it had been requisitioned at the conclusion of the war and painted naval grey.†   (source)
  • You driving back to Melbourne now?†   (source)
  • On previous occasions the race had been held at Melbourne in the Albert Park, roughly corresponding to Central Park in New York or Hyde Park in London.†   (source)
  • He had only one thought in his mind, to get the Ferrari back to Melbourne and take down the front end; all was not well with the steering though he had managed to complete the course.†   (source)
  • The naval interlude became a somewhat boring chore to be lived through, a waste of time that now was growing precious, till he could get back to Melbourne and put in three months of road racing before the end.†   (source)
  • She proved to be the only naval vessel in Australian waters with any worth-while radius of action so she was sailed to Williamstown, the naval dockyard of Melbourne, being the nearest port to the headquarters of the Navy Department.†   (source)
  • She then made a cruise to Rio de Janeiro, carrying supplies of fuel for another American nuclear submarine that had taken refuge there, and returned to Melbourne to undergo a fairly extensive refit in the dockyard.†   (source)
  • He left then for a conference with the Prime Minister, at that time in Melbourne; with no aircraft flying on the airlines, federal government from Canberra was growing difficult, and parliamentary sessions there were growing shorter and less frequent.†   (source)
  • Seven small ships had been converted from oil burners to most unsatisfactory coal burners at great cost and effort; an attempt to convert the aircraft carrier Melbourne had been suspended when it proved that she would be too slow to allow the aircraft to land on with safety except in the strongest wind.†   (source)
  • He handed me a letter from some lawyers in Melbourne, Hurst and Crotchet, and a card.†   (source)
  • "How many inhabitants has Melbourne?" asks Miller.†   (source)
  • He was to leave the vessel at Melbourne, bid a polite good-bye to the captain, and go off at once to the gold-fields.†   (source)
  • One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and we lay in wait for it and attacked it.†   (source)
  • Whenever he showed the photograph to a visitor her father used to pass it with a casual word: "He is in Melbourne now."†   (source)
  • I imagine that steamboat belonged to the Peninsular & Oriental line, which provides service from the island of Ceylon to Sidney, also calling at King George Sound and Melbourne.†   (source)
  • The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq. Her ugly sister, Manon, married M. Duvillard, the rich banker, last autumn.†   (source)
  • There were many English and French steamers plowing this narrow passageway, liners going from Suez to Bombay, Calcutta, Melbourne, Réunion Island, and Mauritius; far too much traffic for the Nautilus to make an appearance on the surface.†   (source)
  • I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them, I am a real Parisian, I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople, I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick, I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence, I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in…†   (source)
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