Sussex
['sʌsiks]
Definition
(noun.) a county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century.
Typed by Ina--From WordNet
Examples
- A burly Sussex policeman and I had found it no light job. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The bony remains discovered at Piltdown in Sussex display a creature still ascending only very gradually from the sub-human. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I came down to Sussex with the intention of seeing the captain, but it was at this moment that his terrible death occurred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But in the particular counties of Kent and Sussex, the restrictions are still more troublesome. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Fever and inflammatory symptoms set in, and Mrs. Bute was forced to leave Sussex for Hampshire. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The first scraps of this skull were found in an excavation for road gravel in Sussex. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But why should you think, said Lucy, looking ashamed of her sister, that there are not as many genteel young men in Devonshire as Sussex? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Have you been lately in Sussex? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The iron industry shifted from the wooded country of Sussex and Surrey to the coal districts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I suppose you were very sorry to leave Sussex. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- After that he travelled for some years, and finally he bought a small place called Woodman's Lee, near Forest Row, in Sussex. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is stated that then the lost art was re-invented by Ralph Page and Peter Baude of England in 1543--who in that year made cast-iron in Sussex. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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