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Stead

Christina (Ellen). 1902--83, Australian novelist. Her works include Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934), The Man who Loved Children (1940), and Cotters' England (1966)
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She probably took it awful hard that Rebecca's fifty dollars had to be swallowed up in a mortgage, 'stead of goin' towards school expenses.
"She'd better 'a' been takin' in sewin' and earnin' money, 'stead o' blindin' her eyes on such foolishness as quilted counterpanes," said Mrs.
He is annihilating the crooked streets and building in their stead noble boulevards as straight as an arrow--avenues which a cannon ball could traverse from end to end without meeting an obstruction more irresistible than the flesh and bones of men--boulevards whose stately edifices will never afford refuges and plotting places for starving, discontented revolution breeders.
``Leave thee in my stead!'' said Cedric, astonished at the proposal; ``why, they would hang thee, my poor knave.''
``Even thus,'' replied Wamba; ``take thou this frock and cord, which are all the orders I ever had, and march quietly out of the castle, leaving me your cloak and girdle to take the long leap in thy stead.''
It consisted of verbatim transcripts of speeches, passages from which had appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette but not in full and subject to Stead's interpretation (see "The Bright Celebration" 14 and 15 June 1883).
Wirral who took the lead through a Craig Harvey penalty but on the stroke of half-time HYM equalized with a Stead penalty.
BRISTOL CITY 2 Davies 47, Stead 90 IPSWICH 1 Murphy 30 AT ASHTON GATE FURIOUS Mick McCarthy blasted his Ipswich side after bottom club Bristol City snatched their first league win under new boss Sean O'Driscoll.
William Stead wrote a short story in which a ship sinks because of a lifeboat shortage.
Craig Stead, 18, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, was jailed despite an attempt to have him put in hospital.
Stead, the subject of Grace Eckley's biography, Maiden Tribute, is perhaps one of the most influential, if not productive, of these determined reformers.
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