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Arsenal also coveted the 17-year-old winger, but City won the battle for a player who joined Leicester aged eight and has already broken records in senior football.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Skenes has posted a 5.47 ERA over his past 10 starts, and the Pirates have won just three of the last 16 games he has started.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Winfrey won the case in 1998, and was so impressed by McGraw that she invited him onto her show and he subsequently landed a weekly segment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Just four months after Arsenal won the Premier League under the ownership of US billionaire Stan Kroenke, Liverpool's hierarchy have opted for outside investment in a bid to regain the crown.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
We were not surprised that he came in third in his first race and won a pair of beaded mukluks.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
But small pleasaunce took Little John In all he heard and saw; Till he reached the cave of a hermit old Who wonned within the shaw.
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Richard Doyle
But while in early morn she wonned alone And Paris slept, shrill rose her singing tone, And brave the light on kindled cheeks and eyes: Brave as her hope is, brave the flag she flies.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett
There by him now stood the beakers and bowls, 172 There lay the dishes and dearly-wrought swords, Rusty, through-eaten they, as in earth's bosom A thousand of winters there they had wonned.
From The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats by Anonymous
The castle would have been right fair and rich had any folk wonned therein, but none there were save one old priest and his clerk that lived within by their own toil.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
Offering there hath he made Saint James, candles him paid, Gold on the shrine hath laid; Now Gobertz Is for Toulouse, where that maid Tibors wonned unafraid Of Love and his accolade That breaketh hearts.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Temple devout! where God chose his wonning,* *abode From which, these misbeliev'd deprived be, To you my soule penitent I bring; Receive me, for I can no farther flee.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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