The latter portion of the expression went out with bristols fame as a seaport.
Stan craned his neck and saw what was holding the eyes of the men in the Blenheims and the bristols.
The nine light Spitfires went down in a screaming dive to cover the Blenheims and the bristols.
Stan knifed into a wedge of Heinkels darting down to drop upon one of the bristols.
For a discussion of the Greek texts, see Professor bristols exposition in the same volume.
City in western England, Middle English Bridgestow, from Old English Brycgstow, literally "assembly place by a bridge" (see bridge (n.) + stow). A local peculiarity of pronunciation adds -l to words ending in vowels. Of a type of pottery, 1776; of a type of glass, 1880. In British slang, "breast," 1961, from Bristol cities, rhyming slang for titties.
