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  • noun Plural form of Fleming.

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Examples

  • The Montserrat Volcano Observatory, in Flemings, www. mvo.ms, (664) 491-5647, serves as the hub for investigating the still-fuming dome, with a veranda looking out at the 3,000-foot monster and its plume, best seen on a clear day.

    October 2005 2005

  • The Irish Annals enter this return under the year 1167, within twelvemonths or thereabouts from the time of his banishment; by their account he came back, accompanied by a fleet of strangers whom they called Flemings, and who were probably hired soldiers of that race, then easily to be met with in Wales.

    A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

  • The Irish Annals enter this return under the year 1167, within twelvemonths or thereabouts from the time of his banishment; by their account he came back, accompanied by a fleet of strangers whom they called Flemings, and who were probably hired soldiers of that race, then easily to be met with in Wales.

    A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

  • Q.Q. When commerce was young, the Flemings were the great merchants of

    Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 Various

  • The Flemings were a family belonging to Kirkpatrick-Fleming, a parish in

    Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

  • "Oh, the Flemings are a wonderful family," said Cousin Tom, gaily, "we are all going to do something great, but somehow we haven't hit it off yet."

    Patty Fairfield Carolyn Wells 1902

  • To rid himself of these guests, the Elector of Brandenburg called the Flemings to his assistance, whom he sought to propitiate by embracing the Calvinist religion.

    The Thirty Years War — Volume 01 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • To rid himself of these guests, the Elector of Brandenburg called the Flemings to his assistance, whom he sought to propitiate by embracing the Calvinist religion.

    The Thirty Years War — Complete Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • To rid himself of these guests, the Elector of Brandenburg called the Flemings to his assistance, whom he sought to propitiate by embracing the Calvinist religion.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • As the Flemings were the first people in the northern parts of Europe that cultivated arts and manufactures, the lower ranks of men among them had risen to a degree of opulence unknown elsewhere to those of their station in that barbarous age; had acquired privileges and independence, and began to emerge from that state of vassalage, or rather of slavery, into which the common people had been universally thrown by the feudal institutions.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743

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