What is "ashdown"

Usage examples of "ashdown".

The surprise-package at the end of his deadly drive through deep rainpools and littered branches was a huge house whose towers he had seen from the Ashdown Dean road not far below.

She felt like throwing herself against it, toppling the damned thing and the person inside who must be calling everyone in Ashdown Dean.

Then she picked up the cat, hid the gun in some bracken, and ran through the trees until she reached the road that led out of Ashdown Dean.

Sebastian Grimsdale was Master of Foxhounds and Harriers, one of the shining stars in the Ashdown Dean social heavens.

The laboratory lay over a mile from Ashdown Dean, a long low gray fortress surrounded by a chain-link fence.

Linley, had paid no more attention to the rules smartly laid down by Sebastian Grimsdale than did anyone else in Ashdown Dean: the greengrocer, the butcher, the librarian.

Grecian columns, its grounds and gardens completely out of place in Ashdown Dean.

And all the while marveling that none of the Ashdown Dean crowd had twigged it: the Baroness Regina de la Notre was either in a waking dream or dead drunk.

The bizarre incident of the death in the call box explained, Ashdown was returning to its daily rounds, with Ida Dotrice filling in at the post-office stores.

In a couple of hours the Ashdown Dean scandal could travel to Liverpool and back.

Jury had got back to Ashdown Dean to find Wiggins dredging up totally unnecessary apologies for not having got hold of him sooner.

But outside of his longknifed cabinet, the prime minister had two key protectors, William Hague and Paddy Ashdown, erstwhile leaders of the opposition parties.