Dorsetshire
Americannoun
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At the final whistle, British soldiers of the Dorsetshire Regiment rushed across the pitch and carried off the winning team shoulder-high.
From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2011
Two other German raiders sunk: > The British cruiser Dorsetshire, which fired the final shot into the Bismarck, downed a converted 10,000-ton merchant ship somewhere in the South Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of the letters were written from London, where Hardy went periodically on literary business, and addressed to Emma at the country home Hardy had built in Dorsetshire.
From Time Magazine Archive
A prettily draped Dorsetshire study of has-beens and never-weres, a Chekhov-flavored and slightly watery custard, A Day by the Sea is often nicely written, sometimes neatly observed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crabb, clerk, born at Child-Ockford in Dorsetshire on —— 1674; educated in grammar learning at ——; matriculated as a member of Exeter College, 18 July 1691; took the degree of B.A.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
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