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Usage examples of whittington.

I were Dick Whittington, the idea would come to me which road we ought to take.

Harry Whittington, and fellow graduate student Derek Briggs, Conway Morris spent the next several years making a systematic revision of the entire collection, and cranking out one exciting monograph after another as discovery piled upon discovery.

His face had grown rapt and, like Dick Whittington, he seemed to 112 see a vision, a city paved with gold.

This might have been that fabled London of which young Whittington dreamed.

They shake their heads whenever they go by Bow Church, and observe that they never expected any good to come of taking down that steeple, which in old times told nothing but glad tidings, as the history of Whittington and his Cat bears witness.

On [ the station platform a statue of a Windrush boy, like a latterday Dick Whittington - bandanna around his I neck, tiny bag at his feet - stood with arms folded, one I foot bent back against the wall, ignored by the trendy new Brixtonites pushing and shoving to get on the j train with their Gucci briefcases.

Like Dick Whittington and the Count of St Germaine, Inspectre Hovis had come to Brentford with only one thought in his mind.

Alice in Wonderland or Dick Whittington, Dirk lent a whole new meaning to the word, and the most aggravating part of all was the fact that, try as Ben might, he could not decipher what it was that the beast was about!

Whittington had set her to washing up a pile of Esthonia Glassware, which bore an unaccountable resemblance to hospital plates!

There were rumours that today the authorities were sending troops from Whittington Barracks to help out.