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  • [Page 242] * Birling is a small boat generally used by fishers.

    The Scottish Chiefs 1875

  • Counsellors were talking to Catherine Madden, 40, shortly before her death at Seven Sisters cliff at Birling Gap in East Sussex on Saturday afternoon.

    Mother kills herself as daughter is found dead 2010

  • At almost the same time, police traced Madden's car, which had been abandoned at Birling Gap, to her home in Felpham, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, where they found the body of her daughter, Keira, in the bedroom.

    Mother kills herself as daughter is found dead 2010

  • Peace Policies Hinge on Israeli Vote Gerry Penny/European Pressphoto Agency STEEP DROP: Hotel workers pulled back a barrier Tuesday after a cliff fell into the sea in Birling Gap, England, due to heavy rains that have pounded the southern coast.

    Today's Photos: Feb. 10 2009

  • Priestley set his play in the Edwardian England of 1912; Daldry and designer Ian MacNeil have placed it in an indeterminate time warp, a blasted postapocalypse wasteland of smoldering, rain-swept ruins above which rises, windows ablaze with light, the house of the industrialist Birling (Philip Bosco).

    Broadway's British Invasion 2008

  • There are dozens of Berlins in the United States, for example, but most of them were after a Burleigh or Burland or Birling.

    Geography Lesson 2008

  • I just wrote an article for my blog entitled: "Electronic Birling Makes One Fall off the Log"

    Reading Again Darren Kuropatwa 2007

  • The road from Birling Gap runs up the valley to East Dean and Friston, two villages among the Downs.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • On some of the high downs near the coast, notably at Beachy Head, at Birling Gap, at Seaford, and in the neighbourhood of Rottingdean, the shepherds made so many coops, placed at small distances apart, that the Downs in some places looked as if they had been ploughed.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • A pleasant walk from Eastbourne is to Birling Gap, a great smuggling centre in the old days, where the Downs dip for a moment to the level of the sea.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

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