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Dunstable

Dunstable is a market town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, north of London. These geographical features form several steep chalk escarpments most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the north. Dunstable is the largest settlement in Central Bedfordshire and third largest in Bedfordshire behind Luton and Bedford.

Usage examples of "dunstable".

Miss Proudie fixed her eyes vehemently on her book, showing that Miss Dunstable and her conversation were both beneath her notice.

Miss Dunstable, had I known that--But I really was engaged on business of some importance.

He had all these things of which Miss Dunstable spoke, and yet he had told his wife, the other day, that he could not afford to neglect the acquaintance of a rising politician like Harold Smith.

For be it known to all men, that Miss Dunstable was the great heiress of that name.

I told Mrs Harold Smith, and Miss Dunstable, too, that we could manage to make room at any rate for them.

Mr Sowerby, was Miss Dunstable, who seemed to take a great fancy to him, whereas she was not very accessible to the blandishments of Mr Supplehouse, nor more especially courteous to her host than good manners required of her.

Miss Dunstable, at the last moment, as she came down the big stone steps.

Mr Sowerby had so arranged matters that he could have accompanied Miss Dunstable in his phaeton.

Miss Dunstable, in a voice which made the coachman in the next carriage give a chuck to his horse as he overheard her.

Mark became accustomed to his companions, and before they reached the palace he acknowledged to himself that Miss Dunstable was very good fun.

Mr Sowerby contrived to sit next to Miss Dunstable, thereby overturning a little scheme made by Mr Supplehouse, he again shone forth in unclouded good humour.

Miss Dunstable, with all her aptitude for mirth, and we may almost fairly say for frolic, was in no way inclined to ridicule religion or say anything which she thought appertained to it.

Miss Dunstable, however, gave a ten-pound note, which swelled up the sum total to a respectable amount--for such a place as Chaldicotes.

His grace himself, when Mark arrived there with Sowerby and Miss Dunstable--for in this instance Miss Dunstable did travel in the phaeton, while Mark occupied a seat in the dicky--his grace himself was at this moment in the drawing-room and nothing could exceed his urbanity.

And Miss Dunstable put her toes on the fender to warm them with as much self-possession as though her father had been a duke also, instead of a quack doctor.