Lancashire

Examples

• Minerals in Lancashire and Wales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Hargreaves was driven from Lancashire to Nottingham, and many of his larger jennies were broken by mobs. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Richard Arkwright, born at Preston, in Lancashire, December 23, 1732, was no exception to this rule. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Tull's machines were much improved by James Cooke, a clergyman of Lancashire, England; and also in the last decade of the eighteenth century by Baldwin and Wells of Norfolk, England. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The influence of all the Lancashire cotton-spinners was aligned against his claims. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Figaro of Seville, famed as he was, was none superior to the Lancashire barber. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Here a Lancashire man named Highs, who had constructed a double jenny to work fifty-six spindles in 1770, was declared by Arkwright’s opponents to be the real inventor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He traveled much through South Lancashire and Cheshire, and there he came in daily contact with the cotton-spinners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If they want a light-weight to be throwed for practice, Cornwall, Devonshire, or Lancashire, let 'em throw me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You know very well--such of you as are old enough to remember--you made Yorkshire and Lancashire shake with your shout on that occasion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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