Lester

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n.1.(Meteor.) A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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They were the widow's three sons, Stout Will, and Lester, and John.
Then his keen hunting-knife flew forth and in a trice, Stout Will, Lester, and merry John were free men and had sprung forward and seized the halberds from the nearest soldiers guarding the gallows.
It is to be AVERIL LESTER. Rather pretty, don't you think?
Lester will reportedly be based in the firm's national Healthcare Practice Group.
We'll go right ahead and say it here: Jon Lester is the best free-agent signing in the history of the Chicago Cubs.
In her nine-page counter-affidavit, NUPL lawyer Katherine Panguban asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to dismiss the kidnapping and serious illegal detention complaint filed against her by Victor Pedaso, the biological father of the boy "Lester" (not his real name).
The case arises from a construction contract that Jim Herman, a farmer in Dane County's village of Marshall, entered in 2009with the Minnesota contractor Lester Buildings LLC.
FAMOUS FIVE Five facts about the greatest jockey that ever breathed air, Lester Piggott.
Helen Lester, whose 40-year career included 20 as head at Saundersfoot Community Primary until she retired in 2015, is also a registered Estyn school inspector and advised other schools for Pembrokeshire Local Education Authority.
Ten-year-old Lester Musselbaum is not happy about attending public school after his mom gets a library job and can no longer home-school him.
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