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That’s why, McKinney says, motels like the Red Apple and William Tell chose to brand themselves so distinctively.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Finally, the film gets surrealistic and even incorporates the William Tell scene from Burroughs' own life.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024
She had written: “There’s a seething stillness to ‘The Card Counter,’ and to star Oscar Isaac’s character, William Tell.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2021
There is Rat Island, nothing more than a pile of rocks with a strange statue of the Swiss folk hero William Tell.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2021
Old William Tell himself couldn’t have shot any straighter than I did.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Said the Herald-American: "Tell William . . . and let William Tell."
From Time Magazine Archive
Tell William Platt I don’t care a speck what he does.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry
Tell William Long to haul the boat up, and let the rowers go to deep on the shore.
From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Tell William to drive as slowly as he likes.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
Tell William to make some strong coffee as soon as possible.
From Macaria by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
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