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Dudmaston Castle is passed immediately before Quatt is reached, and then an undulating run eventually leads to KIDDERMINSTER The name of the town means the 'minster on the brow of the hill.'
— from The Motor Routes of England: Western Section by Gordon Home
He dined alone in a corner of an unfrequented restaurant, eating little, but drinking steadily, absinthe at first, then whiskey, four half-goblets of it, barely diluted with water.
— from The Lieutenant-Governor: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl
It also recommends that the powers of national banks be further extended to permit any such bank to make loans on any improved and unencumbered real estate located within 100 miles of the place in which such bank is located, irrespective of district lines; provided, however, that the aggregate of farm land loans and other real estate loans made by any national bank shall not exceed 25 per centum of its capital and surplus or one-third of its time deposits; and provided further, that no such real estate loan, as distinguished from a farm land loan, shall exceed a period of one year nor exceed 50 per centum of the actual value of the property offered as security.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
Chacune des quatre a une rivière, et les quatre rivières se rendent dans ce dernier pays.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt
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