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  • Mrs. Dimsdale is a first-class graduate of Oxford and won a fellowship at Cambridge.

    There Are No Civilians In London 1941

  • Mrs. Dimsdale comes from a distinguished Welsh family.

    There Are No Civilians In London 1941

  • Hester wore her guilt for all to see while Dimsdale kept his secret and perhaps suffered the more for it.

    Agatha Christie and Guilt « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • Farr's production is also technically adroit, and it is good to see Filter regulars such as Oliver Dimsdale and Ferdy Roberts meshing easily with RSC ensemble stalwarts such as Katy Stephens and Patrick Romer.

    Silence - review 2011

  • His sympathetic biographer, transplanted Englishman Thomas J. Dimsdale, noted that Slade was usually a courteous gentleman, but that those who met him when maddened with liquor and surrounded by a gang of armed roughs, would pronounce him a fiend incarnate.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • His sympathetic biographer, transplanted Englishman Thomas J. Dimsdale, noted that Slade was usually a courteous gentleman, but that those who met him when maddened with liquor and surrounded by a gang of armed roughs, would pronounce him a fiend incarnate.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • Dimsdale, Thomas J., The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains new edition, 1953.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • “Swift and terrible retribution is the only preventive of crime, while society is organizing in the far West,” wrote Thomas J. Dimsdale, chronicler of the Montana vigilantes, in 1865.13 All told, there were hundreds of vigilante movements.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Dimsdale was an Englishman who arrived in Virginia City in 1863 and taught school.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Thomas Dimsdale, who wrote a very favorable book about the vigilantes of Montana, served as the state superintendent of public instruction.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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