How To Use Cornwall In A Sentence
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(Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia.
Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
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Cornwall, the which abbeie Henrie de la Pomerey chasing out the moonks, had fortified against the king, and hearing newes of the kings returne home, died (as it was thought) for méere gréefe and feare.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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By 1781, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis was ordered to march into Virginia to await resupply near Chesapeake Bay.
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The first examples of the Western Region's main line diesel-hydraulics had appeared the previous year and Cornwall was planned to be one of the first areas of BR to banish steam altogether.
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The medieval castle is the most romantic ruin in Cornwall.
On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
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THE Duchess of Cornwall wins two new fans as she visits a new inner city riding centre that she supports yesterday.
The Sun
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Cornwall's specialist supplier and stockists of weldmesh welded steel mesh & associated products - stainless steel weldmesh, galvanised weldmesh, weldmesh fencing.
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Parts of Cornwall's coast and its coves are notorious for such dangerous conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Years ago, on hearing that my family would be moving from Cornwall to fenland Lincolnshire, a friend's father sympathised: I was stationed there during the war.
Letters: Blood ban
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But the idea of coaxing Viscount Rawleigh down to Cornwall died a swift death.
Unforgiven
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I'd pop over the road to Mother India cafe and smell the food, which I still believe to be a free activity.www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museumsThere's a beach called New Polzeath in Cornwall where you can wade out, go under a peak and get to a little secret beach where you can pick cowry shells.
The insider's guide to free arts
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Coastguards from England carried out the rescue off the coast of Cornwall.
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Thence proceeding westwardly along the south bank of the Cornwallis River to the point of commencement.
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For everyone knew that Cornwall was the kingdom of Arthur and his faithless wife, Guinevere, and her lover, Lancelot.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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They moved 350 miles to Cornwall where the collie cross vanished and spent all their spare time trying to track her down.
The Sun
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It was an English and Swedish co-production, filmed in Cornwall.
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Indeed, the effect of Cornwallis's kindly but unsmiling expression was much modified because his wig was slightly awry; Cornwallis still affected a horsehair bobwig of the sort that was now being relegated by fashion to noblemen's coachmen, and today it had a rakish cant that dissipated all appearance of dignity.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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After the Germanic conquest of Britannia, the Anglo-Saxon invaders established a heptarchy of kingdoms across the island, pushing the Celtic Britons into modern Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland and Brittany.
Offa's Dyke
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The National Trust has placed an interdict on jet-skis in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
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Sadly, the extent of Culm grassland in Cornwall has declined dramatically in recent years.
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In many ways he had a charmed life: springing from a humble background in Edwardian Cornwall, he gained a coveted scholarship to Oxford, where he had a glittering early career.
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I am a writer in Cornwall (yes that bit right at the end).
Humour
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There is also a key to the fumitories found in Cornwall, as well as an article about the work of the Environmental Records Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
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We were privileged and delighted to receive Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall as official guests on Thursday 24 July.
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Christianity soon disappeared, except among the Celts of Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In 597, Pope Gregory I sent St.
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He then delivered over the Jews to the earl of Cornwall, that those whom the one brother had flayed, the other might embowel, to make use of the words of the historian. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.
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Writing in 1929, Paynter recalled an itinerant pedlar who had visited fairs around East Cornwall almost two decades previously.
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In September we found ourselves owners of a Victorian, former Duchy of Cornwall flat in a mansion block on a 90-year lease with a secluded garden.
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This steam collier grounded off north Cornwall in 1916 and makes for an interesting dive if you don't mind a little deco, says John Liddiard.
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Open for non-residents, the restaurant is one of Cornwall's finest - and by no means the most expensive.
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Woman dies at sea A holidaymaker has died after being rescued from the sea off Cornwall by a lifeboat crew.
Times, Sunday Times
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His daughter's empty camper van was found parked at the edge of cliffs near her home in Cornwall.
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North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than one million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series of raids that depopulated coastal towns from Sicily to Cornwall, according to new research.
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In the 17th and 18th centuries, the islands were feared as the haunt of pirates and buccaneers from Cornwall, France and Spain, who would lie in wait for poorly defended ships.
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In 1960 he moved to Cornwall, where a flourishing art community had developed around the small sea-side town of St Ives.
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In our three weeks in Cornwall, Wales and Ireland, we saw amazing sites and felt remarkable spirits abroad in the land.
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Known as 'USAR' - Urban Search and Rescue dogs - they will follow in the heroic and highly professional paw-prints of the dogs that went to the Pakistan earthquake, the USA's 9/11 dogs, and the rescue dogs used during the Boscastle Floods, in Cornwall.
Archive 2008-02-01
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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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Christianity soon disappeared, except among the Celts of Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In 597, Pope Gregory I sent St. Augustine, the Prior of St.
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This is the Cornwall of myth, a clichéd caricature version of the county complete with exaggerated eccentrics, loony local lore and mystical happenings.
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British fantasy author Louise Cooper, passed away on October 21, 2009 of a brain aneurysm at her home in Cornwall.
RIP: Louise Cooper
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Forget California, Costa Rica or even Cornwall: the Blue Flag beach here is the place for surfing, its rockless sand perfect for beginners and advanced surfers alike (it is also good for body boarding).
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Edgar risks his reason up in quarrel with Oswald, as he has risked it in assisting Gloucester after a duke's defamation by Cornwall, Goneril, Regan as good as Edmund.
Archive 2009-11-01
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The probation officers' union, Napo, said it had learned that the government was considering the closure of Dartmoor and Lancaster Castle prisons, returning them to the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster.
Ministers plan to close jails as part of bid to cut number of prisoners
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Saltash in Cornwall has been identified as Britain's most desirable postcode because of its stable house prices and good schools, according to researchers.
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In 1693, he petitioned for, and was granted, the stewardships of several hundred courts in Cornwall.
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They also don't have the easy target that Cornwallis gave them at Yorktown, though there is a small British force operating in the area.
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If we read ‘Grimshaw in Cornwall’ or ‘Schultes in Berlin’, it suggests that the projects can be accredited to these ‘icons’ alone.
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JIMMY KIMMEL, HOST, "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE": Even though Camilla is now technically, she is the princess of Wales, out of respect for Diana, she ` ll be known as the duchess of Cornwall.
CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2005
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So why is Cornwall such a foodie mecca?
Times, Sunday Times
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The biggest extractive industry in Cornwall today is the mining of china clay.
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Conservative MP for South East Cornwall Sheryll Murray, whose trawlerman husband died at sea, wanted reassurances that no coastguard co-ordination centres would close before the new system works.
BBC News - Home
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At least, I think it is a glare, maybe the old roué is on the pull and has mistaken the duchess of Cornwall for one of the ladies of the night that are standard fare at Tory party parties.
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Parts of London and Essex could disappear and Cornwall could become an island off the coast!
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These are the only two circular buddles known in North America, and they represent the importation of state-of-the-art ore-processing technology from Cornwall, England, during the 1850s.
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Appalachee troops also raided Cornwallis's supply lines so often that after less than a month it became quite clear that Cornwallis was the besieged, not the besieger.
He Don't Know Him
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The dramatic reconstruction sees Cornwall's tropical gardens impersonating the sweltering heat of Darien.
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The medieval castle is the most romantic ruin in Cornwall.
On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
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Some factories and manufacturers are creating jobs, especially in the nearby Cornwallis Park.
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Philip, 46, skippered a yacht carrying 3.7 tonnes of cannabis - worth 11 million - from North Africa to Cornwall.
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I'm heading back to Cornwall tomorrow, where I shall recline in a bejewelled chaise-longue in one of the many glittering salons and wow the courtiers with tales of the mysterious ways of the natives here in London Village.
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Anthony Devlin-Pool/Getty Images Camilla, duchess of Cornwall, visited the 'Marwari' horses, known for their endurance, in Jodhpur, India, Tuesday.
Prince Charles' Visit to India
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Pat Keen, who has gone to Cornwall will be greatly missed as a teacher.
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Sporting Magazine
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“In a beautiful valley about midway between the small town of St Columb Major and the sea, lies the Teresian Carmelite Convent of Lanherne ...”: so begins the little booklet giving the history of this important site in Cornwall, important among other things for its Catholic history, especially its post-Reformation struggles.
More Encouraging News from the Franciscans of the Immaculate: Their House in Lanherne, England
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Under the act, the public can walk across 237,000 acres of moor, mountain, heath and downland in Cornwall, Devon and western Somerset that were previously closed, including 116,000 acres of Dartmoor national park.
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Clinton reassured Cornwallis that he faced only 2000 regular Continentals, plus a small body of ill-armed "spiritless" "peasantry".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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And the heat has lured thousands of giant jellyfish to Cornwall.
The Sun
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Between contracts he would return to Britain and relax with his wife and grown-up son and daughter at their home in Cornwall.
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In Cornwall no housewife would scour or scrub on Childermas, and in Northamptonshire it was considered very unlucky to begin any undertaking or even to do washing throughout the year on the day of the week on which the feast fell.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
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It was officially opened in 1988 and introduced tournament golf to Cornwall.
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He lives in retirement in Cornwall.
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Particularly impressive examples occur in North Wales and Cornwall, while the brochs and duns of Scotland are monumental examples of roundhouses.
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Wentworth's influence had been primarily responsible for Cornwallis's decision initially to proclaim Jane in Ipswich despite Mary's repeated orders to the contrary.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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I would buy some bad players, get the sack and then retire to Cornwall.
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Thanks to clear seas and warm waters the hidden depths of Cornwall are teaming with marine wildlife just waiting to be discovered.
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But Clive Brassier, the tree pathologist who first discovered the disease, has dubbed it Kernovii - the ancient name for Cornwall.
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We had four days away in Cornwall which was absolute bliss, helped by having the most gorgeous weather imaginable.
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The sea here is as cold as Cornwall in winter and you have to wear a full wetsuit, boots, gloves and a hood to insulate you from the frigid waters and equally cold winds.
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In fact one has been in operation near Helston, Cornwall, for at least 12 months.
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Following Meissen and Sèvres products, British potters began to use china clay or kaolin, when in 1768 William Cookworthy, a Plymouth chemist, proved the potential of the kaolin reserves of Cornwall.
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Parts of Cornwall's coast and its coves are notorious for such dangerous conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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This steam collier grounded off north Cornwall in 1916 and makes for an interesting dive if you don't mind a little deco, says John Liddiard.
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They moved 350 miles to Cornwall where the collie cross vanished and spent all their spare time trying to track her down.
The Sun
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In another outdoor new year tragedy, a man died after falling out of a canoe as he navigated his way down a steep-sided river gorge in Cornwall, police said.
Teenager who died on Scafell Pike is named as Lee Jones
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Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.)
Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
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Fed up with being a critical punchbag, he retreated, first to Ireland and then to a bungalow in Cornwall, together with his wife, dogs and library of over 30,000 books.
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Last year we had occasion to visit relatives in Cornwall.
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Cornwallis fumed, and later historians have echoed his frustration, but should that be accepted as an objective judgement of the behaviour of Halifax's pioneers?
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While divers do venture to offshore reefs beyond the furthermost point of Cornwall, they sometimes forget that there is more of the British Isles to come, some 28 miles further south-west.
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Devon and Cornwall Police said Dean and Davis "cuckooed" themselves into homes through mental and physical abuse and in one case a tenant was forced to sleep rough under bridges.
IcNewcastle
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But being dubious whether Joshua Cornwall, as a servant within the house of Mr. Fenwick, could be properly convicted of burglariously breaking into his said master's house, they found their verdict as to him special; which the judges having considered, they were unanimously of opinion that the crime was in its nature a burglary.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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As the firing was still continued on the French side, Lafayette sent an aide-de-camp to the Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.)
Memoirs Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
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Similarly, a bufflehead – a small duck with a distinctive bulbous head – was spotted in a farm pond on the Lizard in Cornwall.
Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers
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Cornwallis's job was to prevent the Grande Armée mounting a cross-channel invasion and, in doing so, he ‘achieved a goal as important as Trafalgar’, though unhonoured.
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He took his young friends to see the ancestral home of the Treffry family and acquainted us with one of the prettiest towns in all of Cornwall - Fowey.
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Roche hermitage in Cornwall occupies a spire of rocks of schorl that shoots 100 feet above the surrounding moor.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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Their suspicions focussed particularly on what Cornwallis and his kind characterized as sloth and desertion.
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The new constituency would stretch from Port Isaac bay in Cornwall to Bideford bar, a sandbank in the Taw-Torridge estuary in Devon.
Cornwall-Devon boundary may change
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The music will also explore the associations between the church and the neighbouring Abbey, which was founded by Richard, Earl of Cornwall in the 13 th century.
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Open for non-residents, the restaurant is one of Cornwall's finest - and by no means the most expensive.
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Half of those surveyed said that they have selected Cornwall as their holiday hot spot.
Times, Sunday Times
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His father was Uther the pendragon, and his mother Ygernê (3 _syl_.), widow of Gorloïs duke of Cornwall.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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An empty car was washed into the harbour in Portloe, south Cornwall, while a landslip at Lostwithiel, near Bodmin, blocked the main rail line in and out of the county.
Residents rescued from homes as floods hit Cornwall
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The now Duchess of Cornwall has had many outfits made by the label, Robinson Valentine in the past five years, so they are familiar with dressing Camilla.
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Kaolin is the very same with the clay called in Cornwall [Transcriber's note: word missing] and the petuntse is a granite similar to the Cornish moorstone.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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Getty Images The dinner hosted by the Maharaja and Maharani of Patiala at the Moti Bagh Palace for Prince Charles, prince of Wales, second right, and Camilla, the duchess of Cornwall in Patiala, India, Monday.
Prince Charles' Visit to India
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The county of Cornwall, although not normally reckoned a palatine county, has a similar status to Lancashire.
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The dramatic reconstruction sees Cornwall's tropical gardens impersonating the sweltering heat of Darien.
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Greenwell discovered numerous antler picks scattered throughout the mine as well as the ground stone axe made of greenstone from Cornwall.
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It is not unusual for fin whales to be sighted off Cornwall but only rarely are they washed ashore.
Times, Sunday Times
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Special harvest breads were made and these too vary as one moves round the country, from the rich saffron breads of Cornwall to the bannocks of Scotland.
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Attending rehearsals last night, I was pleased to note that ‘I came all the way from Cornwall for this’ has now become a stock phrase for when a scene falls slightly flat.
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In the southwest of England through the counties of Devon and Cornwall, these bellyboards are still in wide use, even so much as to have their own championships and organisation.
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CORNWALL - The nephew of an alleged city drug supplier testified Wednesday that he saw his uncle and two Sudbury men burning clothes at his family's Merrickville farm the same day as a double murder in Cornwall.
Ottawa Sun
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In many ways he had a charmed life: springing from a humble background in Edwardian Cornwall, he gained a coveted scholarship to Oxford, where he had a glittering early career.
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There are many such "knacked bals" in Cornwall, with their iron "bobs" -- horizontal, depressed, or raised aloft, according to the attitude in which they expired -- holding forth similar firm, silent, and perpetual protests and cautions.
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
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General Smith faid that the widow of the Black Prince had a dower from the Dutchy of Cornwall.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ...
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This is what transformed Cornwall and peppered it with Methodist chapels during the Evangelical Revival and in the first half of the 19th century.
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He therefore ordered his heaviest ship, the _Cornwall_, 74, to go there from the centre, exchanging places with the _Centurion_, 50, and at the same time signalled the fleet to close _to the centre_, -- a detail worth remembering in view of Rodney's frustrated manoeuvre of April 17th,
The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence
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These are what we call pixies in most of England, but in Cornwall, they are called piskies.
Celtic Fairytales
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The spring 1998 timetable change makes it possible to photograph this working in Cornwall in daylight
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In his otherwise rose-tinted Survey of Cornwall, Richard Carew reached the point where ‘we must also spare a room in this Survey to the poor’.
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It no more means the castle of haste than Tintagel in Cornwall signifies the castle of guile, as the learned have said it does, for Tintagel simply means the house in the gill of the hill, a term admirably descriptive of the situation of the building.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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They moved 350 miles to Cornwall where the collie cross vanished and spent all their spare time trying to track her down.
The Sun
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CORNWALL -- A pair of filmmakers from Cornwall are getting ready to take the country by storm.
London Free Press
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Although a significant portion of the duchy's lands was in the county of Cornwall, the two are not geographically the same.
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But no mention of Food Street is complete without the cornwallahs and their pushcarts.
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On the York River, near its embouchure, is the little port of Yorktown, famous for the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the American forces in 1781.
Plan of the Seat of War in Eastern Virginia
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Cornwall in 1952 sees earthman Michael Trehearne discover he is of Varddan extraction in The Starmen Of Lyrdis.
Archive 2010-01-01
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Again, in slight earthquakes, such as the Cornwall earthquake of April 1, 1898, [83] the curves of equal sound intensity, while their axes are parallel to those of the isoseismal lines, are displaced laterally with respect to these curves, owing to the arrival of the strongest sound-vibrations from the upper margin of an inclined seismic focus.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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And from out of the night, over the roofs of Trewissick from the dark inland moors, came sailing again the phantom ship of Cornwall, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind, that had sailed up out of the midnight sea in the haunting.
Greenwitch
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You may visit Chapel Rock and St. Michael's Mount from Penzance, which is between three and four miles away and is the ideal centre for some of the most wonderful scenery in Cornwall.
Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.
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This line crosses many counties and touches beautiful stretches of coastline as it makes its way to the end of Cornwall.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually the problem in Cornwall is that they voted for low water rates for a long time when water was in the hands of local authorities.
The Taxing Miss Julia Goldsworthy
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Crocosmias have montbretia, run amok in the hedgerows of Cornwall and Co Kerry and populating them with unwanted offspring.
WN.com - Articles related to Invasive plant killing Dartmouth lake
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These reservoirs, which supply water to the towns of Cornwall and Highlands, New York, were built before 1920.
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We did see a tui and a kereru in Cornwall Park today.
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He wrote one other poetic drama, The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall.
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A bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, Gundry published Songs and dances of Cornwall in 1966, and used Cornish subjects, and folk-song material, in his operas The tinners of Cornwall and the comic opera The logan rock.
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He says he gets his gregariousness from his father, an affluent farmer who left Cornwall to take over Bardon's Victorian quarry in 1949, and his toughness and business sense - he is highly numerate - from his mother.
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My annual visit to Cornwall involves a round trip of about 475 miles, which will cost roughly £214.
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The next stop on this cruise is likely to be in Cornwall.
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And when it was also suggested to him by one of the prebendaries of the Cathedral that it might be well for him to change his clerical duties for a period with the vicar of a remote parish in the north of Cornwall so as to be out of the way of remark from those whom he had scandalised by his conduct, he had no objection to make to that arrangement.
He Knew He Was Right
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For fourteen years, off and on, I have spent the spring on the south coast of Cornwall, in the heliotropic village of St Mawes.
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This part of west Cornwall has some amazing places to visit.
The Sun
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Both the Blet and Cornwall volumes are also part of the current struggle over the possible beatification and canonization of Pius XII.
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Half of those surveyed said that they have selected Cornwall as their holiday hot spot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Devon and Cornwall Police has said it is investigating claims that officers illegally tried to "jemmy" the locked door with their metal batons after one of them dropped their phone in the back of the car during a search.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Cornwall appears to be one of the main areas attracting homebuyers wanting to live by the sea.
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The roads out of Cornwall were heavily congested .
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A multi-year project, centered around small sensitive lake ecosystems in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Cornwallis Island, Somerset Island, and Devon Island), was designed to explain the interactions between short - or longer - term climatic variation, the bioaccumulation of metals, and various biochemical stress indicators in land-locked populations of Arctic char.
Global change and contaminants in the Arctic
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The balloon began losing helium during inflation aboard the launch ship Triton, around 20 miles off St Ives, west Cornwall.
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And as it's coming up to my hols (only one week to go) it's looking increasing like it's going to be raining when I'm down in Cornwall.
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Supposing Yorkshire or Cornwall decided by a majority vote to secede from Britain and elect their own government.
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Trebah Gardens, Falmouth, Cornwall is famed for its ravine gardens and this is one of the best.
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Last month I saw the first firing of the rocket in a dank aircraft hangar in Cornwall.
Times, Sunday Times
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My most impressive dish is an advanced form of bangers and mash, using the best sausages (by Mr Harris of Tywardreath, in Cornwall) cooked in cider with apples and bacon.
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We've booked a holiday for the end of August - we're going to Cornwall and have booked a cottage in Penzance for a week.
August 9th, 2008
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Last year we had occasion to visit relatives in Cornwall.
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So why did she buy a derelict chapel in a fishing village on the south Cornwall coast?
Times, Sunday Times
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In Cornwall and North Wales in particular, many sites produce considerable quantities of Roman goods.
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Cornwall police yesterday sealed off a farm after learning it was going to be the site of an illegal rave.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the North, unseasonal downpours hit Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, while flooding in Dorset and Cornwall led to road closures.
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It is quite remarkable, but not nearly so remarkable as the dialect spoken in Yorkshire or Cornwall, nor is it as divergent from the English language as those dialects are over others to be found in the British Isles.
The Yankee Myth
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What about the spring pollack of my south western reefs or the magnificent porbeagle shark fishing of North Cornwall?
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Tristan expected to inherit the kingdom of his uncle, King Mark, in Cornwall.
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Cornwall is the county with the most listed buildings in the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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They make stoneware, porcelain and ‘raku’ at the pottery, using simple ingredients such as Dorset clay ball, Devon china clay, local sand, granite from Cornwall, feldspars, limestone and basalt from Somerset.
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Fernando Po, Bavaria, and Cornwall; phosphates of manganese; phosphate of copper; yellow and green uranite; phosphates of alumina, including the blue spar, which has been mistaken for lapis-lazuli, and the phosphate of alumina known as turquois, found only in Persia, and esteemed as an ornament.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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It is low season in Cornwall, and hotels have dropped their prices.
Times, Sunday Times
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She graduated in art and design at Falmouth in Cornwall in 1991 and was soon in demand as a wildlife illustrator for magazines and books.
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She can hardly wait for superfast broadband to arrive in this part of Cornwall.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sir, said Sir Lamorak, I understand by your tongue ye be of Cornwall, wherein there dwelleth the shamefullest king that is now living, for he is a great enemy to all good knights; and that proveth well, for he hath chased out of that country Sir Tristram, that is the worshipfullest knight that now is living, and all knights speak of him worship; and for jealousness of his queen he hath chased him out of his country.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2
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I'm not exactly over the moon at being another year older but my wife is taking me away for the weekend to meditate, cogitate and recuperate in Cornwall.
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CORNWALL, Ont. -- An Akwesasne spokesman says a meeting is scheduled today between the federal border agency and Akwesasne leaders to discuss temporary options to reopen a border crossing near Cornwall, Ont. The Canadian Border Services Agency shut down its post on Cornwall Island, which sits inside Akwesasne, on June 1 after border guards expressed concerns about their safety following native protests over arming guards.
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He pointed out levels are insignificant compared with parts of Devon and Cornwall where more than 30 per cent of houses are affected.
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I am currently down in Cornwall so do not have a Tale of Two Cities with me.
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The English were in the overall command of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, a gentleman from Wessex.
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More precisely, dip into the warm cheese fondue at Watergate Bay's Beach Hut in Cornwall after a morning's surfing.
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_ -- This consists simply in the separation of the ore by hand at the mines into different qualities, by women and boys with small hammers, the process being that known as "cobbing" in Cornwall.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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She is now on a train back to Cornwallshire, with a bottle of voddy, a smile on her face, and whatever else she nicked from the mess.
Army Rumour Service
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She had driven him to many of Cornwall's secret and enchanted places, shown him ruins to which were attached wonderful stories.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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It is not unusual for fin whales to be sighted off Cornwall but only rarely are they washed ashore.
Times, Sunday Times
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The last change was in the 1930s when a separate shield was granted to Charles Le Grice of Cornwall and the red and blue were changed into stripes and the boars courant have white spots.
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Mr. Harte is returned in perfect health from Cornwall, and has taken possession of his prebendal house at Windsor, which is a very pretty one.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Such scale-warps are part and parcel of island life and nowhere in England (if Cornwall counts as England) can you dip more completely, more rewardingly, into island life than in the Scillies.
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It was owing to the mines that Dartmoor became a part of the Duchy, for the 'metalliferous' moors of Dartmoor and Cornwall had, on that account, long been Crown lands; and therefore, when Edward III created his eldest son Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, the Chase of Dartmoor, and the
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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Mine entrance: The 'adit' at Droskyn Point in Perranporth, Cornwall.
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If so, I should by now be unable to contain my excitement about the eclipse, and be packing my suitcase for a once-in-a-lifetime dash to Cornwall.
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Only this week a homeowner from Cornwall was denied a mortgage because he had Japanese knotweed in his garden.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cornwall has always had this relationship with the rest of the world that gives us a different sphere of interest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greek, variously influenced from Athens on one side, Byzantium on the other: then, across the Ægean, you have the great country absurdly called Asia Minor, (for we might just as well call Greece, Europe Minor, or Cornwall, England Minor,) but which is properly to be remembered as
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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Since I retired 18 months ago I have taken to visiting my uncle at his house in Cornwall; I stay for a few days and carry out maintenance on his neglected garden.
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They moved 350 miles to Cornwall where the collie cross vanished and spent all their spare time trying to track her down.
The Sun
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She was wearing her clip-on dog earrings today, the ones she had bought on holiday in Cornwall last year.
GOING OUT
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I just found this whilst looking for info for our forthcoming trip to Cornwall.
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Paradoxically, my previous experience of the ocean – summer holidays in Pembrokeshire and Cornwall – had given my Atlantic an undoubted turquoise tint.
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester – review
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There was a frisson of excitement when it seemed they might even complete their circumnavigation by washing up on the beaches of Cornwall they didn't.
In praise of … Moby-Duck | Editorial
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West Cornwall-born Hannah, who works as a journalist at Radio Cornwall, grew up by the sea and learnt to swim in the ocean, spending much of her childhood at the beach bodysurfing.
