How To Use Devonshire In A Sentence
- In the mid eighteenth century a severe illness called the Devonshire colic was traced to lead poisoning from the metal used to seal holes in mills and presses.
- This anonymous play has a consistent speaker of south-western dialect, the cloth-maker Oliver, whose home is explicitly mentioned as Devonshire.
- The photographers were there with lights and cameras, the reporters with their notebooks, the police with their strong arms, the stationmaster with his top hat, and the Duke of Devonshire with a welcoming handshake on behalf of the Commonwealth Relations Office. From the archive, 21 January 1964: A last moment of glory for the Sultan?
- Freedom Food labelled Devonshire Red Corn-fed Chicken is now available in a number of major retailers.
- And again, while I am quite familiar with the word "arrish," I never heard "arrishers," and I believe it is unknown in Devonshire. Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- In 18th-century England, Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, used her extravagant tastes to support the Whig cause against George III, wearing outrageously plumed hats to political rallies. Le Freak, C
- The introduction, where we see Lexie kicking her heels in the stifling atmosphere of her Devonshire family before a too-chance encounter with the glamorous, corduroy-suited Innes, feels a little stagey; for all the brilliance of O'Farrell's depictions of new motherhood, the historical plot outshines and unbalances the contemporary one. The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
- People in Devonshire don't walk around wearing jeans and sweatshirts during the dog days of summer.
- Gloucester as well as Theocritus and Horace; he is seriously perturbed at the decline of agriculture in Devonshire; in spite of the fertility of the soil, he says, it yields insufficience of bread, beer, and victual, to feed itself, for which the country has to have recourse to Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
- Take your pick from a home cooked Devonshire morning tea for $5 or a delicious roast beef lunch for $15, or both!
