Speke
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The terraced home on Upton Green, Speke, is now an Airbnb and is owned by Ken Lambert, who got in touch with the museum.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024
The Billiard Room at Liverpool's Speke Hall hosted some leading lights when they visited between 1867 and 1877.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2023
The unfailingly good-natured Bombay tried to play peacemaker, but Burton and Speke clashed often, piling up resentments and mutual antipathies that would never be fully resolved.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
“River of the Gods” is a lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by those two friends turned enemies, Richard Burton and John Speke, to solve the geographic riddle of their era.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2022
The bitter Speke controversy which followed, dividing geographers for a time into two contending factions, deprived Burton of the glory which he merited and drew upon him much unfriendly criticism.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
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