shire
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The family showed shire horses, he said, which his son was passionate about.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
More recently, his works have also provided a fertile shire for nationalists who see themselves in his heroic archetypes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
One comment simply read: "Anything that ends with shire will do me, Lincolnshire or Yorkshire."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2021
“If we could get five new families to the shire, for us that would be a massive success,” Hancock said Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
At least eighteen hands high, but not thick in the way of shire or draft horses.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
In the late 70s he ran away from private school, the shires and his military family’s Catholicism to make his name in acclaimed films such as Another Country and Dance With a Stranger.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2019
The 1,200 constituents who showed up for his forum — residents of Hollywood, Burbank, Silver Lake — are terrified of what’s been wrought by the faraway shires of Oshkosh, Grand Rapids, Erie and Dayton.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2017
The Anglo-Saxon shires were designated counties - the Saxon sheriff often replaced by a Norman count.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2014
And thanks to the more than 100,000 jobs the oil industry generates in Aberdeen and its surroundings, unemployment in the city and neighboring shires is less than half the 7.8 percent national average.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2013
But if any one will visit the shires of Dorset, and Devon, and Hampshire, he will find the same result.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
