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rotherham

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Rotherham is a large town in South Yorkshire , England, which together with its conurbation and outlying settlements to the north, south and south-east forms the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham , with a recorded population of 257,280 in the 2011 census. ...

Usage examples of rotherham.

My character was retrieved only when I was stupid enough to become engaged to Ivo Rotherham, and lost beyond recovery when I put an end to that most abominable episode of my life!

William, will sit here, I shall invite Rotherham to take the wing-chair.

If Rotherham is conscious of it, I can only say that I am astonished he should choose to intrude upon a matter which can only concern the family!

Earl appointed my Lord Rotherham to be one of the Executors of his Will.

I am sure I do not know what Lord Rotherham must be thinking of such manners.

Spenborough said hastily that the appointment of Lord Rotherham was perfectly agreeable to him, whatever it might be to others.

Any of the dandy set would have used all manner of arts to show them off: my Lord Rotherham dug them into his pockets.

The Most Noble the Marquis of Rotherham had succumbed to uncontrollable laughter.

Only at the end of the reading did Rotherham unfold his arms, and stroll over to the desk, holding out an imperative hand.

But Lady Theresa, whose guest she was, was shocked beyond measure, dared not guess what her father would have said, ascribed it all to her having cried off from her engagement to Rotherham, and recalled with approval her own girlhood, when she had never done so much as walk in the park at Milverley without having her footman in attendance.

Mrs Stowe tells me that the turbot had to be thrown away, and to have been obliged to have set an indifferent dinner before Lord Rotherham would have made me feel ready to sink!

If I have been asked once, I have been asked a dozen times if you and Rotherham mean to make it up.

I was never more astonished than when Rotherham said he saw no harm in it, and as for Susan, she was ready to drop!

This opinion was shared by Lady Silchester, who excused it, however, by saying that gentlemen always dislike to be plagued by children, and that no one could expect such a thorough sportsman as Rotherham to take to Gerard, who had no taste for sport, a very bad seat, and far too little spirit.

Charlie a lesson, and I could feel one of my spasms coming on, only Augusta told Rotherham he was a great fool not to have locked up the gunroom when he had an imp like Charlie to stay, and said surely he could not wish me to fall into strong hysterics, and so it passed off, and I was truly grateful to Augusta.