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grandsire

Bell-ringing a well-established method used in change-ringing
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In further evidence of their message of support, the Change Ringers then went to the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling where they rang a quarter peal of Grandsire Doubles.
Because the average number of steers per sire or grandsire was small, sampling effects may have led to these effects being overestimated (Girgnola et al., 1996b).
Marske Bellringers practice their Grandsire Triples, right KEEN RINGERS: Senior Tutor Peter Sotheran teaches new ringer Emma Warwick the art of bell-ringing, above, and pictured with some of the other bell ringers, right
Montgomery (later Viscount Montgomery of Alamein), then to Ostend and from there was taken by HMS Rowena to Dover, where a peal of grandsire triples was rung with all bells muffled bar the tenor.
Bellringer John Pladdys muses on the notice that seems at odds with the planned 5,000 changes rung in Grandsire Cinques honouring the Queen's Silver Jubilee, in October, 1977, at Our Lady & St Nicholas Parish Church, Liverpool.
Certain methods of ringing have different names, including Stedman Caters, Grandsire Triples and Cambridge Surprise Maximus.
"Yet again one old grandsire assures me that Kem herding with his beasts acquired a wonderful knowledge of their natures; each one would answer to its name, and come to his call; he would fondle them in his more pleasant moods, but in his darker hours banish them from his heaven to a place called his hell."
- The phenotypic variance of seed mass was initially partitioned using analysis of variance employing SAS GLM (SAS 1985).The model included all the factors in the crossing design and their interactions, i.e., maternal grandsire, paternal grandsire, dam nested within maternal grandsire, sire nested within paternal grandsire, their interactions, and fruit within mating, all considered random.
With your crimson mouth where that eloquent tongue by which your grandsire beguiled poor Eve now silently flickers look, a blue sky....
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