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    1. PO1 Douglas Munro (USCG) used his landing craft to shield U


    2. Munro received a posthumous Medal of Honor


    3. But were they the real thing? Munro was a notorious practical joker


    4. Munro, by the way, could never decide if he was Australian or British, so there was much huffing followed by something I can only describe as a Foster’s guffaw before he told me what had happened, namely that he had come upon the pidgin poem Drimtaim in a small restaurant in Brisbane, where he had found it scribbled on the back of a menu


    5. Munro always admired what he termed “the delayed effect” of some practical jokes, a topic he never stopped talking about, and he may have seen in me the perfect potential dupe


    6. After all, poets always believe they lead secret, mysterious lives, but I think Munro, when he came across the poems, being a bit of a little greedy piggy himself, must have sensed my own little greedy piggy need for poetry


    7. Before my conversation with Munro, I had always assumed that the two poems had been written by a poet, and in this case, by an aborigine poet by the name of Eldred Van-Ooy


    8. But when Munro “confessed” to having written Mi Tair, it really set me spinning


    9. All this, of course, was a lot of work to go through for a practical joke, but there were a few reasons why Munro may have done so, one of them being his nature and the other being mine


    10. Munro may have been one of them, if for no other reason than he’s a bit like that himself

    11. All I have is the word of Munro, which is a hall of mirrors all by itself


    12. “I’m on my way out to collect Federal Agent Munro


    13. “There’s something wrong, Munro


    14. “Get a grip, Munro,” he muttered under his breath, forgetting for a moment that his words had been captured by the microphone pinned discreetly to the lapel of his jacket


    15. “Upset? You call this upset? I’m not upset, Munro


    16. “And this is Federal Agent Munro


    17. In Book Two of the Munro Family Series, you will meet another Munro brother


    18. Banished to a small country town after reporting his city superiors for corruption, Detective Riley Munro is never going to accuse the town’s recently retired Police Commander of murder


    19. Read the back cover blurb of each of the Munro Family stories by visiting my website at: http://www


    20. keep the rock until Munro can send a party to our help! God send it may be soon and

    21. "Remember, Duncan, how necessary your safety is to our own—how you bear a father's sacred trust—how much depends on your discretion and care—in short," she added, while the telltale blood stole over her features, crimsoning her very temples, "how very deservedly dear you are to all of the name of Munro


    22. "Why," repeated the scout, looking about him proudly; "because it is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience! What answer could we give Munro, when he asked us where and how we left his children?"


    23. "Is such the faith that Cora Munro would exact from her protector?" said the young


    24. "Now does our gentle Alice speak like a daughter of Munro!" said Heyward, pausing to press her hand as he passed toward the outer entrance of the cavern


    25. As the thoughts of those who are in misery seldom slumber, and the invention is never more lively than when it is stimulated by hope, however feeble and remote, he had even imagined that the parental feelings of Munro were to be made instrumental in seducing him from his duty to the king


    26. She waited until he had departed, and then turning to the native, with the dignity of her sex in her voice and manner, she added: "What would Le Renard say to the daughter of Munro?"


    27. Magua foolishly opened his mouth, and the hot liquor led him into the cabin of Munro


    28. "When the Chippewas tied Magua to the stake, and cut this gash," said the other, laying his finger on a deep scar, "the Huron laughed in their faces, and told them, Women struck so light! His spirit was then in the clouds! But when he felt the blows of Munro, his spirit lay under the birch


    29. The daughter of Munro would draw his water, hoe his corn,


    30. But thou overratest thy power! You shall find it is, in truth, the heart of Munro you hold, and that it will defy your utmost malice!"

    31. "Ha!" he added, "what says the daughter of Munro? Her head is too good to find a pillow in the wigwam of Le Renard; will she like it better when it rolls about this hill a plaything for the wolves? Her bosom cannot nurse the children of a Huron; she will see it spit upon by Indians!"


    32. "Look! the child weeps! She is too young to die! Send her to Munro, to comb his


    33. Unwilling to prolong a useless discussion, the young man affected to comply, by posting his back against the logs of the blockhouse, in a half recumbent posture, though resolutely determined, in his own mind, not to close an eye until he had delivered his precious charge into the arms of Munro himself


    34. A few succeeding days were passed amid the privations, the uproar, and the dangers of the siege, which was vigorously pressed by a power, against whose approaches Munro possessed no competent means of resistance


    35. Munro was pacing his narrow apartment with a


    36. "Major Heyward," said Munro, turning to his youthful associate with the dignity of his years and superior rank; "I should have served his majesty for half a century, and earned these gray hairs in vain, were I ignorant of all you say, and of the pressing nature of our circumstances; still, there is everything due to the honor of the king's arms, and something to ourselves


    37. Major Heyward found Munro attended only by his daughters


    38. No, sir, thank Heaven we are not yet in such a strait that it can be said Munro is too much pressed to discharge the little domestic duties of his own family


    39. For several minutes Munro paced the chamber with long and rapid strides, his rigid features working convulsively, and every faculty seemingly absorbed in the musings of his own mind


    40. "The sweetness, the beauty, the witchery of your younger daughter, Colonel Munro, might explain my motives without imputing to me this injustice

    41. "And became the mother of Alice?" exclaimed Duncan, with an eagerness that might have proved dangerous at a moment when the thoughts of Munro were less occupied that at present


    42. Munro sat utterly unconscious of the other's presence, his features exposed and working with the anguish of his regrets, while heavy tears fell from his eyes, and rolled unheeded from his cheeks to the floor


    43. As Munro listened to the detail of Duncan, the excited feelings of the father gradually gave way before the obligations of his station, and when the other was done, he saw before him nothing but the veteran, swelling with the wounded feelings of a soldier


    44. From the moment that Munro left his own works to appear in front of his enemy's, his air had been grand, and his step and countenance highly military


    45. If the air of Munro was more commanding and manly, it wanted both the ease and insinuating polish of that of the Frenchman


    46. Munro witnessed this movement with manifest uneasiness; nor did he fail to


    47. When this opening was translated to Munro, he answered with dignity, but with


    48. "Had I been conscious that Monsieur Montcalm was master of the English, I should have spared myself the trouble of so awkward a translation," said the vexed Duncan, dryly; remembering instantly his recent by-play with Munro


    49. From the shock of this unexpected blow the haughty feelings of Munro never recovered; but from that moment there commenced a change in his determined character, which accompanied him to a speedy grave


    50. Munro appeared among his silent troops firm but dejected































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    Synonyms for "munro"

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    "munro" definitions

    British writer of short stories (1870-1916)