"I call it ghost-busting, " says Rhonda Griffin, who has helped homeowners oust mettlesome spirits on the popular TV show " Sightings ."
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Chiefs of Naval Operations, or CNOs, can be a button-down, starchy breed, with little regard for an inquisitive news media, let alone a mettlesome congressional panel or White House staffer.
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Chiefs of naval operations, or CNOs, can be a button-down, starchy breed, with little regard for an inquisitive news media, let alone a mettlesome congressional panel or White House staffer.
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We had started in the night, were well out on the ocean, a pretty heavy sea was running, and the mettlesome little " Wayanda " was giving us a taste of her qualities.
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I believe this to be serious but non-malicious error in judgment, perhaps due to the mettlesome multiple layers of dispute resolution bureaucracy, or perhaps due to not wanting to get personally involved, an understandable concern.
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From mettlesome mother Meg and cantankerous father Hugh to their three lanky sons and their colorful wives to Hugh's radical brother Darius, lately arrived from Scotland, each member of the Duff family has a story and a piece of the action.
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But it was late in Johnson's Tuesday conference call, shortly after His Hairness had stunningly offered the opinion that Owner Jones wasn't " a mettlesome person, " that I began coughing uncontrollably and commenced the search for explanations.
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He called it " an ominous writ " that the FBI issued " in tones sounding virtually as a biblical commandment . " He worried that anyone who received a national security letter, except " the most mettlesome and undaunted " targets, would feel barred from consulting a lawyer.
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The poet himself said that Betty Davidson, an old lady who lived with the family for a time, related " tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, witches, warlocks, spunkies ( mettlesome persons ), kelpies ( water sprites ), enchanted towers, giants, dragons, etc . This cultivated the latent seeds of Poesy ."
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I'm among the newest of New Yorkers, but even people who have never set foot in Manhattan have felt its wounds deeply, because New York is the beating heart of the visible world, tough-talking, spirit-dazzling, Walt Whitman's " city of orgies, walks and joys, " his " proud and passionate city _ mettlesome, mad, extravagant city !"
