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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

Forty miles from Melbourne, Kinglake was at the epicenter of one of Australia’s worst disasters, the Black Saturday bush fires.

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

I am delighted with Kinglake, but I want the two first volumes.

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

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