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newcastle
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Population (2000): 299 Housing Units (2000): 153 Land area (2000): 0.335003 sq. miles (0.867655 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.335003 sq. miles (0.867655 sq. km) FIPS code: 34090 Located within: Nebraska ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Newcastle \New"cast`le\, prop. n. A town in England. Carry coals to Newcastle to do something utterly superfluous; to do something useless or wasteful; -- from the nearness of Newcastle to the coal-mining district.
Wikipedia
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Newcastle usually refers to either: Newcastle upon Tyne , a city in Tyne and Wear, England Newcastle, New South Wales , a metropolitan area in Australia Newcastle , New Castle or New Cassel may also refer to:
Usage examples of newcastle.
He was Charlie Smith, an English-born Negro with a flat Newcastle accent.
The quaint old cuts on next page probably illustrated an early Newcastle, then York, and finally Banbury, edition of this oft published work.
Chap Men, or Running, Flying, and other mercurial stationers, peripatetic booksellers, pedlers, packmen, and again chepmen, these visited the villages and small towns from the large printers of the supply towns, as London, Banbury, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc.
In conclusion, it may be said that the present volume contains many precious relics of the Bewick, Newbury, Goldsmith, Newcastle York, Banbury, Coventry, and Catnach presses, and a representative collection of the stock of workable woodcuts of a provincial printer in the latter part of the 18th century, and to those who would like to inspect the rentable copies of those valuable and interesting little books, and some of the original Horn Books, etc.
Newcastle had been more than forty-five years in the cabinet, and this utter disregard to money-making exhibits his patriotism in a strong light: few would have served their country so long without well replenishing their coffers, especially at that age, when the virtues of disinterestedness and self-abnegation were exotic rather than indigenous to the human heart.
Melancholy, I might see more vividly his all-too-earthly connections with Macclesfield and Chesterfield, and beyond them, looming in the mephitic Stench, Newcastle and Mr.
Every day, there would be new arrivals of coals from Newcastle, rank hoppers of saltpetre from the Indies, fragrant sheaves of tobacco from the Fortunate Isles, barrels of Muscadet, endless sacks of every kind of fruit and produce, some of which, rotting and mouldering, brought plagues of insects even more irritating and ugly than those which commonly alighted on the flesh of every Londoner in those long hot shifterms.
At any rate it was a large property lying between the Newcastle town lands and the Ingagaan River, in the centre of which rose a great flat-topped hill, the Rooi or Red Point, that gave it its name.
For a part of the distance between Auburn and Newcastle the road - first on one side of a creek and then on the other - occupies the whole bottom of the ravine, being partly cut out of the steep hillside, and partly built up with bowlders removed from the creek-bed by the miners.
Mary from the tender mercies of the Misses Trenchard and had got her and Bella set on in the kitchen of a big house on the outskirts of Newcastle, and was hoping to get Charlotte, too, established there soon.
In 1732 a giant cassowary was on view in Newcastle, along with a huge vulture, several big cats, a Mountain Monster, and a possum with a false belly where her young could take refuge.
But little could the latter have dreamt, while serving his apprenticeship at Percy Main, that his friend George Stephenson, the brakesman, should yet be recognised as among the greatest engineers of his age, and that he himself should have the opportunity, in his capacity of President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers at Newcastle, of making public acknowledgment of the opportunities for education which he had enjoyed in that neighbourhood in his early years.
There is a band of absconders, United Irishmen, hard men, living between there and Newcastle, and some of them think you may have changed sides since ninety-eight.
Viruses: Foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, Rift Valley fever, vesicular stomatitis, vesicular exanthema, hog cholera, African swine fever, fowl plague, Newcastle disease, and equine encephalomyelitis.
Adding a ruby ring to the blazing splendor of his costume was coals to Newcastle, but I was touched by the anxious thought behind it.