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Kinglake

American  
[king-leyk] / ˈkɪŋˌleɪk /

noun

  1. Alexander William, 1809–91, English historian.


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Keith Edwards, of Kinglake Place in The Meadows, Nottingham, was charged following demonstrations on 3 August.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024

In Kinglake West, Deb and Mark Morrow, who lost their house on Black Saturday, say they are again living in a tinderbox.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2020

Alexander Kinglake, in his 1844 travelogue Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home From the East, wrote of crossing the Sava River from the Austro-Hungarian empire into Belgrade, then on the Ottoman border:

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2017

Peter Thorneycroft stood on the roof of the Kinglake National Hotel for over an hour with only a hose and bucket, protecting 20 women and children hiding inside as fires raged around them.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2010

Kinglake is admirable; he has but one fault,—and perhaps it would be none to less impatient men than myself,—he does not get on fast enough.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund

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