How To Use Devonshire In A Sentence
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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.
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This anonymous play has a consistent speaker of south-western dialect, the cloth-maker Oliver, whose home is explicitly mentioned as Devonshire.
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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?
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Freedom Food labelled Devonshire Red Corn-fed Chicken is now available in a number of major retailers.
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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.
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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
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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
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People in Devonshire don't walk around wearing jeans and sweatshirts during the dog days of summer.
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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
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Take your pick from a home cooked Devonshire morning tea for $5 or a delicious roast beef lunch for $15, or both!
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He looked world-weary although he'd never seen any place outside of Devonshire.
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Even the trading-house showed a closed door, and the English trader, his pipe in his mouth, smoked with no latent significance, but merely to garner its nicotian solace, sat with a group of the elder braves and watched the barbaric sport with an interest as keen as if he had been born and bred an Indian instead of native to the far-away dales of Devonshire.
The Frontiersmen
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In the Forest of Dartmoor, Devonshire, between Tavistock and Chegford, is a high hill, called Crocken Tor, where the tinners of this county are obliged by their charter to assemble their parliaments, or the jurats who are commonly gentlemen within the jurisdiction, chosen from the four stannary courts of coinage in this county, of which the lord-warden is judge.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
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Just a few miles away from Woolacombe stands Arlington Court, a Georgian manor house set in acres of rolling Devonshire parkland.
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Ramsey's first holiday in Devonshire as a bishop was made unhappy by the news of the quarrel in the parish.
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Henceforward the Devonshire miners were separated from the Cornish, and held stannary parliaments on the top of Crockern Tor.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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He held five other peerages besides the title of the Duke of Devonshire - Marquess of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, Lord Cavendish of Hardwick and Lord Cavendish of Keighley.
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The Duke of Devonshire is gone to Spa; he was stopped for a week by a rash, which those who wished it so, called a miliary fever, but was so far from it that if he does not find immediate benefit from Spa, he is to go to Aix-la-Chapelle, in hopes that the warm baths will supple his skin, and promote another eruption.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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The Devonshire designation for this excellent sort of poultry -- known elsewhere as "stubble geese" -- is "arrish geese.
Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment.
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Each, however poor, had a wild garden around it, and, where the inhabitants possessed some pride in their surroundings, the roses and the jasmines and that distinguished creeper, -- which one sees nowhere at its best but in Devonshire cottage-gardens, -- the stately cotoneaster, made the whole place a bower.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
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The floor of the moor is a thousand feet above the surrounding Devonshire countryside, from which it rises abruptly.
The Moor
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It's based in the opulent Glasgow hotel, One Devonshire Gardens, thus guaranteeing a steady stream of starry names among the diners.
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This anonymous play has a consistent speaker of south-western dialect, the cloth-maker Oliver, whose home is explicitly mentioned as Devonshire.
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Sir Walter Raleigh kept his broad Devonshire accent all his life, to the point where people used to complain that the Swisser-Swatter was almost incomprehensible in the east of England.
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There is a little pink butterwort here in the bogs, which grows, too, in dear old Devonshire and Cornwall; and also in the south-west of
Madam How and Lady Why
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A subcontractor 's shed had been broken into, then The Devonshire Arms.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will hence be referred to as "shires" e.g. Texasshire,
Army Rumour Service
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A mile thence is a fine pile of Buildings of Stone very uniforme and high Called Worsup Mannour built by a Coe heir of the Devonshire house – 3 sisters built 3 noble buildings, this and Ardeck and Chattsworth.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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Tiered trays come to the table loaded with the proverbial cucumber sandwiches, along with scones served with Devonshire clotted cream, dozens of dainties and many other treats.
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It's well known to the industry but Sheffield's annual non-fiction knees-up is making the most of its new June slot to find ways to reach out to the public – like next week's free open-air screenings on Devonshire Green, graced by special guest Albert Maysles, who'll introduce his legendary Grey Gardens.
This week's new film events
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He had left his wife, and the mother of his two children, Penelope Chetwode, for Elizabeth Cavendish, a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret and daughter of the Duke of Devonshire.
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Ramsey's first holiday in Devonshire as a bishop was made unhappy by the news of the quarrel in the parish.
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The group says that parked cars on one side of Devonshire Street appear to be impeding visibility for vehicles pulling out of Suresnes Road.
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She will be unveiling a recently sculpted bronze head of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, which has been presented to Sandown Park by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
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Book of Edgar, Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History' -- in the Cathedral library -- and the exquisitely illuminated 'benedictional' of St. Æthelwold possessed by the Duke of Devonshire, all these were produced before the end of the tenth century by the artists who laboured so patiently in the
The Book-Hunter at Home
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That only left time to visit the tearooms for a superb Devonshire cream tea, before the heavens opened again, and we made a dash for the car.
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Opened on August 20, 1904, by the Duke of Devonshire, the grade two listed building is hosting a number of events throughout the year to mark its centenary.
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It was only later that he learned from Jean that Kathleen was engaged to William Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington and the future Duke of Devonshire, a wealthy member of the British aristocracy.
Teddy Kennedy
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The whole of the inhabitants of the county may be regarded as possessing an interest in the Devonshire Commons, with the exception of the people of Barnstaple and Totnes, the reason being that those districts not having been afforested with the rest of the county, the residents acquired no new privileges when Devonshire was disafforested.
The Customs of Old England
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The Lords and ladies would be put up at the Devonshire Arms Hotel at Bolton Abbey before the pheasant and grouse shoots.
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It was the morning of the Duchess of Devonshire's rout that Carstares again broached the subject.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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Ashburnham hand-list, 1864, now (1897-98) supplemented by the sale catalogue; the Chatsworth Catalogue, which does not include the books at Devonshire House, and Lord Crawford's catalogue of his Ballads and
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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Cavendish was the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, a cousin of Lord David Cecil, et cetera, and became a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret - the next best thing, perhaps, to Betjeman bagging a royal.
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In 1666 he returned to London to work as co-pastor in the Devonshire Square church, and was inducted by William Kiffin and Hanserd Knollys.
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But "crusions" are golden carp, and when I was a child the Devonshire fishermen used to call the long white fish with argent stripes (whose proper name, I think, is the launce) a silverling.
Gossip in a Library
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The knotted serpent and the stag trippant in are derived from the crests respectively of the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Buccleuch, who are the principal landowners - the latter also being Lord of the Manor of Plain Furness.
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The curious white ale, or lober agolwhich, within the memory of man, used to exist in Devonshire and Cornwall, but which, even half a century ago, I have vainly sought therewas, I believe, drunk quite new; but then it was not pure malt and not hopped at all, but had eggs (pulletsperm in the brewage) and other foreign bodies in it.
Beer and Cider
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If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.
Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
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He is sitting on a settee in his hotel suite in One Devonshire Gardens, a plump and compact figure in a black pinstripe shirt and black trousers.
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Bourne has dcme the fodishest thing that ever a sensible man was guilty of; he made solimtationa tQ the Duke of Devonshire for a Chaplsinship to a Man of War, and is now sailed in the Ruby, in Boscawen*s squadnm, for the £ast Indies: this he dkl uakaowtt to most of hitr friends, and without any view of other inlepest than the heim
Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.
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The Battalion sailed to Egypt on the Empire Fowey but we were unable to get Minnie a passage on this ship so we fixed for her to follow on HMT Devonshire.
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Marriage made her Lady Andrew Cavendish, then Marchioness of Hartington, th en Duchess of Devonshire that ' s all the same husband, and I can ' t blame Americans who find British nomenclature taxing; since her husband died six years ago, she has been the Dowager Duchess.
Portrait of a Vanishing World
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Lower Carboniferous conodont faunas from North-East Devonshire.
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In a large mixing bowl, stir the powdered sugar and vanilla extract into the Devonshire cream.
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They crawled out, brushed one another clean, slid the saloon-pistols down a trouser-leg, and hurried forth to a deep and solitary Devonshire lane in whose flanks a boy might sometimes slay a young rabbit.
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In 1523, the king gave her a silver cup, Wolsey sent her a gold salter, and the countess of Devonshire gave her a gold cross. 54 In 1524, the same countess gave her a silver gilt image of the Virgin, Wolsey gave her a saucer of gold, and the Duke of Norfolk sent her a silver cup. 55
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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I am going to a Devonshire country wedding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Badgley Mischka's campaign, inspired by a Dutchess of Devonshire fantasy, portrays a bride beneath a huge pompadour with leaves, feathers against a soft, gold background.
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Beside this beech, there was a pretty little laurel tree, and the arbutus, which one of the sailors, who was from Devonshire, would persist in calling a myrtle bush, although the skipper showed him the berries to convince him to the contrary.
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
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Tewkesbury crier Mike is using the occasion to announce his support for the regiment to keep its unique badge, which it is in danger of losing in the impending merger with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment.
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In both these cases, as with Devonshire wrestling, cockfighting or bull baiting, the sports had become less popular and/or illegal over the Victorian period.
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According to the ‘RailLinks’ pamphlet, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire's stately home is down on the south coast, with nearby Bakewell on the Isle of Wight.
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Dana arrived just in time to witness Jeremy Devonshire's little fit, and she propped herself in the doorway to wait for the storm to lull.
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Devonshire is of Roman date, or whether it goes farther back, to a remoter tradition of preclassical times, it is difficult to say.
Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland
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He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment.
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In the afternoons, one can visit local gardens, play croquet, sit amidst the blooming azaleas, nibble on some Devonshire tea, and adamantly wish for a quick death.
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I have already referred to him as being almost the only "highflyer" in the prison, as being the man who once obtained 150_l. _ from a gentleman in Devonshire under false pretences.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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But then again, she wore girdles and kept monogrammed hankies and Devonshire toffees in her handbag.
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For the athlete who will spend days on an aiguille for the sake of gymnastics has less of the true stuff in him than the simple fellow who goes a walking tour in Devonshire from an honest liking for high places.
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As the Duke of Devonshire Fiennes is deadly dull and passionless, which is the point of the character and why Georgiana had to find her amusement in other areas.
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