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Setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles
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dartmoor
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Dartmoor is an area of moorland in southern Devon , England. Protected by National Park status as Dartmoor National Park , it covers . The granite which forms the uplands dates from the Carboniferous Period of geological history. The moorland is capped ...
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Phyllis Dartmoor, had initially been as hostile toward the group as the council members, but after a short flurry of fruitless efforts to force the Voyagers out of town, she had become surprisingly sanguine about the situation.
The special color Radiance had created for her was called Dartmoor Mauve.
Phyllis Dartmoor had already guessed that we were seeing each other, uh, socially.
She had shoveled the photos of Phyllis Dartmoor back inside as soon as she had realized what she was looking at, but it was obvious her mind was still on the pictures.
Phyllis Dartmoor, Attorney at Law painted on it opened just as Charity was about to walk past.
Elias watched as Phyllis Dartmoor left her office, turned, and walked away in the opposite direction.
Phyllis Dartmoor came to a halt and saluted Elias and Charity with a glass of punch.
It hurries you along through frothing sea and pungent powder smoke and the grim ordeal of Dartmoor Prison with no respite in its traction.
THE LIVELY LADY So only four hundred and ninety-nine Frenchmen crowded out into the wet Dartmoor fog, some of them weeping and some kissing the handful of soldiers that escorted them down the long hill.
I had seldom glimpsed since the night of our arrival, when its owner welcomed us to Dartmoor with a snarl and sent us up the stone stairs to what he doubtless thought would be a pummeling from King Dick.
The long line of Frenchmen stretched so far down the hill ahead of us the hill at the bottom of which lay Princetown that the head of the column was lost in the mist that had come to seem as much a part of Dartmoor as her fleas and the bells on the wires around the walls.
More than once I have longed to change places with the prince regent for five minutes for the sole purpose of hanging Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt for naming such a town after me and God knows he deserved to be hanged for persuading the British government to build Dartmoor Prison on his property.
It was good to sleep on real beds again, after the hammock mattresses of Dartmoor, which might have been stuffed with clam shells for all the comfort we took on them.
Perhaps it was a month after this when a New Bedford man, con 228 THE LIVELY LADY signed to the Cachot for ten days, came in with news he had from a fresh draft of prisoners just brought to Dartmoor from the sea.
Therefore I say, after due thought and consideration, that this William Dykar, chief surgeon of the depot at Dartmoor from 1809 to 1814, was a deliberate and coldblooded murderer.