mavis

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Examples

• The most astonishing came from Ron and Mavis Pirola, a middle-aged Australian couple who have been together for 57 years.

• Ryan Adams, Mavis Staples and Band of Horses are some of the artists to perform.

• “He pretended he was just going to have the weekend off and made sure the Japanese spy would pass it all back,” Mavis recalled.

• “It was a strange little outfit in the cottage,” Mavis said.

• Mavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, south London, on May 5, 1921, the daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress.

• A chilling thought struck him: was this what happened to the crew of the Mavis?

• He thought of the bleached bones of the crew of the Mavis, and shuddered.

• He never has those fine intervals of lunacy into which his cousins, the catbird and the mavis, are apt to fall.

• He bowed over it in courtly fashion,but did not kiss it as he had kissed the hand of Mavis Clare.

• With all her intellectual gifts she was yet a lovable woman,ah Mavis!how lovable and dear I was destined in misery to know!