Champion of England
Americannoun
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It is the quintessential sleeping giant: Champion of England three times in the 1950s, the club has enjoyed only two brief spells in the Premier League since 1992.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2017
The variety is a day or two earlier than the Champion of England.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Burr, Fearing
The card was signed T. C. and T. Belcher; but every one knew that the initials stood for the Champion of England, Thomas Cribb.
From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by Knapp, William
For second crops, American Wonder and Premium Gem; and for the main and most satisfactory crop of all, Champion of England.
From The Home Acre by Roe, Edward Payson
My way to school led me past the Champion of England public-house, kept by the Tipton Slasher—William Perry, from whom Tom Sayers afterwards wrested the honours of the Prize Ring.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
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