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Sayers

, Gale Eugene Born 1943.

American football player. A running back with the Chicago Bears (1965-1971), he is one of few players to score touchdowns by rushing, receiving, and kick returning during one game, and the first to accomplish this feat three times.

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Sayers

(ˈseɪəz)

(Biography) Dorothy L(eigh). 1893–1957, English detective-story writer

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Say•ers

(ˈseɪ ərz, sɛərz)
n.

Dorothy L(eigh), 1893–1957, English detective-story writer, dramatist, essayist, and translator.

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Sayers - English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957)

Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, Dorothy Sayers

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For the Universe has three children, born at one time, which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son; but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer, and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

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The Rev Simon Sayers sent lurid texts to the woman, who was also married, as they "strayed appallingly" into an affair when she sought pastoral support.

Priest's shame over affair with 'sensuous skilled & sexy' lover; Church bans unfaithful married rector for life

Members of Newcastle's notorious Sayers clan set up an 'illegal' market pitch to promote a new book about the family's history.

Why the Sayers family set up 'illegal' market pitch in Newcastle city centre; Copies of 'A Breed Apart' were sold from a stall outside a book shop in Newcastle city centre

Daniel Sayers, 35, left his victim fighting for his life following a violent knife attack at a property on Tel El Kebir Road, Sunderland in August last year.

Prison for throat-slash attacker

JAILBIRD John Henry Sayers has won his fight against his 'high-risk' prisoner status.

From A to B, Sayers wins prison cell fight to have his Category status changed; LAWYER: HE'S VERY HAPPY AT GETTING some justice

JAILED hardman John Henry Sayers has been left dazed by the sudden death of his sister.

Hardman's family is left devastated by the loss of sister at the age of just 45; POLICE PREPARING REPORT FOR CORONER FOLLOWING GRIM DISCOVERY OF WOMAN'S BODY

Daniel Sayers, 26, has been jailed for eight years for fatally mowing down 64-year-old taxi driver Allen Ingram in Denton, Tameside.

8 years' jail for chase-driver who killed grandad

John Sayers, 54, is accused of arranging for the shooting to be carried out weeks after his son was ejected from the club.

'Hardman ordered ride-by shooting of bouncer after his son was thrown out of Newcastle nightclub'; John Sayers, 54, is accused of arranging the shooting after his son was kicked out of the Tup Tup nightclub in Newcastle

Sayers began to write poems about her impressions of Oxford and of her experiences as an undergraduate student.

ALLEGORICAL REFERENCE TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY THROUGH CLASSICAL MYTH IN THE EARLY POETRY OF DOROTHY L. SAYERS: A READING OF "ALMA MATER" FROM OP. I

Ryan Sayers, 18, was locked up at Teesside Crown Court for two bouts of dangerous driving.

Danger-drive teen who wrote off car is locked up

Sayers describes the history of ancestor worship in ancient India over a period of more than a thousand years, from the first millennium B.c.E.