Brampton

[ bramp-tuhn ]

/ ˈbræmp tən /

a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, near Toronto.

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The sun still had more than two hours to go on its journey to the hill crests when the train pulled into Brampton station.
Coniston, Complete|Winston Churchill
And letters from my father tell me of L20 hurt done to us at Brampton.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
Cynthia insisted upon walking with her friend down the street to the hotel—an undertaking that was without danger in Brampton.
Coniston, Complete|Winston Churchill
The quick, searching eyes of Brampton rested on the clerk, and he took in his woeful condition with the rapidity of his trade.
Mrs. Vanderstein's jewels|Mrs. Charles Bryce

It was a brick building on a corner opposite the common, imposing for Brampton, and very imposing to Wetherell.
Coniston, Complete|Winston Churchill