Costain
Americannoun
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Michael Costain, 69, from Rhayader, Powys, travelled to the west African country on 8 March and had been expected back on 20 March.
From BBC • May 19, 2023
Matt Costain, who played the lead role of Sky Boy in the Dome’s central show, told me that the performers’ training programme created an entire industry of circus and acrobatics in the UK.
From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2020
Martin has also listed Maurice Druon and Thomas B. Costain as models, two mid-20th-century historical novelists who wrote about medieval France, and you can see echoes of that material in his fictional universe, as well.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2012
It is just the latest in a long line which, in the past year, has included firms such as Trinity Mirror, Pirelli, Fujitsu, Barclays, Morrisons, Vodafone, BMI, Dairy Crest, IBM and Costain.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2010
Tired of "all the Arthurian tripe about the Holy Grail," Novelist Costain has written his own version of what happened to the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper.
From Time Magazine Archive
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