Lyme Regis

/ laɪm ˈriːdʒɪs /

noun

1. a resort in S England, in Dorset, on the English Channel: noted for finds of prehistoric fossils. Pop: 4406 (2001)

Example Sentences

After tossing about for twenty-two hours in a raging sea, it drifted with the tide into Lyme Regis, with forty men on board.

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Lyme Regis has never been a large town, but it has from very early times been a place of some importance.

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In a small place like Lyme Regis it would surely not be difficult to find somebody who would introduce them.

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To a man the tradesmen of Lyme Regis seemed as deficient in simple faith as they were in Norman blood.

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There was a chance that aggressive measures would be confined to the enemy at our gates, the tradesmen of Lyme Regis.

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