Northumberland
[nɔ:'θʌmbәlәnd]
Definition
(noun.) the northernmost county of England; has many Roman remains (including Hadrian's Wall).
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Examples
- It agrees nearly with the estimation of the Northumberland book in 1512. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It requested his attendance, within an hour's time, at a house in Northumberland Street, Strand, which he had never had occasion to enter before. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Brooke says he is one of the Lydgates of Northumberland, really well connected. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the household book of Henry, the fifth earl of Northumberland, drawn up in 1512 there are two different estimations of wheat. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Exactly what had happened to Mr. Godfrey in Northumberland Street now happened to Mr. Luker in Alfred Place. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Tell me the whole of the Northumberland Street story directly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This phrase, uttered in my hearing yesterday, would have only conveyed the notion that she was about to be removed to Northumberland, to her own home. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I am dying for more news of him, after his adventure in Northumberland Street. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- How is your friend Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite, after the mauling he got from the rogues in Northumberland Street? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Godfrey instantly turned back, and proceeded to the house in Northumberland Street. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She and her brother are the only children of an iron-master somewhere up Northumberland way. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You have some private reason for not talking of your adventure in Northumberland Street; and I mean to know it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He accordingly wrote to Professor Challis, July 9, requesting him to employ for the purpose the great Northumberland equatorial of the Cambridge Observatory. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We must leave Mr. Godfrey to recover in Northumberland Street, and must follow the proceedings of Mr. Luker at a later period of the day. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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