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Usage examples of dorset.

Thirty minutes later a very suspicious Blake Ravenscroft dismounted in front of Seacrest Manor, near Bournemouth, Dorset.

However, as it was quite an understood thing that York and Brummell should both have their particular apartments both at Belvoir and at Cheveley, his grace of Dorset acquiesced in the alteration, and was only glad that so notable a whist-player should have joined the party.

On the promontory washed on the one side by the slow stream of the Dorset Stour, and on the other by the no less sluggish flow of the Wiltshire Avon, not far from the place where they mingle their waters before making their way amid mudflats and sandbanks into the English Channel, stands, and has stood for more than eight hundred years, the stately Priory Church which gives the name of Christchurch to a small town in the county of Hants.

At the dissolution of the monasteries the diocese of Bristol was founded, which included the counties of Bristol and Dorset.

It was the very question she would have liked to put to him herself, but he had, after all, come hotfoot down to Dorset.

He wondered if the Ulva bombers had reached their mark, and whether Macadam had managed to scrounge up enough Plasroc and make the interminable trip north, at least as far as Cape Dorset, where his ground support was waiting.

I wrote to every one of the kennels in Dorset, and they all sent me their fancy brochures with color pictures of where they kept their animals, and actual menus of what they fed them, and how the runs and cages were heated, and what days the vet would come for checkups, and what days they did worming and grooming and all.

Middlesex, the Dorsets, and the Somersets, together with the Imperial Light Infantry.

On the 21st the Dorsets, Middlesex, and Somersets had borne the heat of the day.

Some time later, on the 10th of November to be exact, during the very early hours of the morning Cicely and I were walking along Dorset Street in Spitalfields, a dingy and poverty-stricken neighborhood.

The Dorset County racecourse, sin of sins, was outside the Hoopwestern catchment area.

Does no man remember the going back to his place when these strangers had bided in it for a while, after they beat us in Dorset?

Hobs and bogles too—get him to tell you about the Screaming Skull of Bettiscombe Manor—but mostly it’s Dorset history, the bits and loose ends that don’t fit into books.

The manner of his proceeding will be best exemplified by relating a discourse which he had with the Marquis of Dorset previous to the departure of the latter for Bradgate in Leicestershire.

Polar Eskimos lost the bow and arrow and the kayak, while Dorset Eskimos lost the bow and arrow, bow drill, and dogs.