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  • Agony aunt Virginia Ironside's views on euthanasia and abortion shocked many viewers of the BBC's Sunday Morning Live.

    Abortion and euthanasia: was Virginia Ironside right? Zoe Williams 2010

  • The non-poisonous Belladonna, appearing at my side and pouring from a steaming jug of replenishment, asked me baldly why a sensible-looking person like myself should bother with Ironside's mental switch-back.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • He concedes however that Ironside's 260 coinages assigned by the Oxford English Dictionary to Shakespeare "might yet prove significant."

    'Edmund Ironside' Sams, Eric 1987

  • Nevertheless the War Premier wrote that he agreed in general with Ironside's strategy, providing all possible field troops were stripped from the coast and grouped into "leopards".

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • Ironside's plan instantly provoked violent controversy.

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • In fact, Cromwell dated from Ironside's time as C-in-C, and was a merely warning order to take up battle stations.

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • Brooke, an intellectual soldier with a penetrating analytical mind, who had commanded a corps in the French campaign with much distinction, abandoned Ironside's largely static strategy of a coastal "crust",

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • General Ironside's letter of merit is included later in this account.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

  • General Ironside's commendation is not a bit too strong in its praises of the signal platoon.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

  • In her childhood at Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire she drove a pony-and-trap and rode side-saddle; she went to school at Miss Ironside's in London, sharing a classroom with the future Queen Mother, whose pigtails she once dipped in ink.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

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