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bristol

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 9923 Housing Units (2000): 4207 Land area (2000): 1.649289 sq. miles (4.271638 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.198721 sq. miles (0.514685 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.848010 sq. miles (4.786323 sq. km) FIPS code: 08760 Located within: Pennsylvania ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bristol \Bris"tol\, n. A seaport city in the west of England. Bristol board , a kind of fine pasteboard, made with a smooth but usually unglazed surface. Bristol brick , a brick of siliceous matter used for polishing cultery; -- originally manufactured ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bristol was a European Parliament constituency centred on Bristol in England, but covering much of Avon . Until 1984, it included parts of southern Gloucestershire and northwestern Wiltshire . Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation ...

Usage examples of bristol.

Bristol nor I could conceive of any one seeking to possess the bloodstained thing except the mysterious leader of the Hashishin - Hassan of Aleppo - as a creature of that awful fanatic being I had written her down.

The bands had decided to stay in Bristol, fearing that Wales would be shut on a Sunday.

After securing billets in the Hotel Bristol, I went back for the party.

Bristol Cream before dinner, and Dad cracked a bottle of Chambertin 1934, which had probably never been drunk with goat meat before.

But, like Mary Bastholm before her, Lucy Partington disappeared from somewhere near a bus stop, although this time one on the Evesham road in Cheltenham rather than one on Bristol Road in Gloucester.

The Great Western railway, striking into the Avon valley near Bath, serves Bristol from London, connects it with South Wales by the Severn tunnel, and with the southern and south-western counties of England.

At the dissolution of the monasteries the diocese of Bristol was founded, which included the counties of Bristol and Dorset.

Evening had come early over Exmoor, dark clouds roiling up from the Bristol Channel to blanket the moors.

The bargain being thus struck, the lad turned aside into the Bristol road, and Sophia set forward in pursuit of Jones, highly contrary to the remonstrances of Mrs.

In the past eighteen years he had never once been outside Bristol, not even to visit his parents in Kincardineshire or the bankers in London, yet from reading reports and studying maps he had an exact knowledge of Wyoming and northern Colorado.

Up to now, the cloistered little Scotsman had known a horizon delimited by Kincardineshire and Bristol.

The Jerries had probably sewn a new net of mines in the Bristol Channel or outside Swansea harbour either by minelayer or aircraft - nothing more or less than routine.

Not just Bristol, but Venetian, Nailsea, American mould-blown tablewear.

Sir Richard, driving out of Queen Charlton at very much the same time as Miss Creed was boarding the Accommodation coach at Kingswood, chose to take the road to Bath rather than that which led to Keynsham, and thence, due north, through Oldland to join the Bristol road at Warmley.

Complaining of the haughty spirit and the discord which prevailed in the British cabinet, and of the insults offered to his sovereign, Wall informed Bristol that he might leave Spain as soon as he pleased, and at the same time issued orders to detain all English ships then in the ports of Spain.