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  • Sampling just from the beginnings of paragraphs yields a shelf of references: "In the classic ghost story …" "In The Spoils of Poynton …" "In his autobiography Stravinsky …" "In Chapter 4 of What Maisie Knew …" When Raine drops into this company a plug for Areté, his own Oxford-based arts magazine, it lands without any explanation for non-subscribers, nor any detectable splash of irony.

    Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010

  • Peter Addison, of Heaton Mersey, Stockport, and his friend Mark Ridgeway of Poynton, Cheshire, smashed crockery and let off fire extinguishers ...

    Archive 2007-09-01 Newmania 2007

  • Peter Addison, of Heaton Mersey, Stockport, and his friend Mark Ridgeway of Poynton, Cheshire, smashed crockery and let off fire extinguishers ...

    Tories go Pinky and Perky Newmania 2007

  • Peter Addison, of Heaton Mersey, Stockport, and his friend Mark Ridgeway of Poynton, Cheshire, smashed crockery and let off fire extinguishers ...

    Archive 2007-09-02 Newmania 2007

  • The couple then concentrated on developing their plantation at Poynton Manor in what is now Charles County, Maryland.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • According to Poynton and Broadley, the upland areas of Angola such as the Bié Plateau, which form the heart of the ecoregion, do not appear to be notable centers of reptile or amphibian endemism.

    Angolan Miombo woodlands 2008

  • Poynton list 14 species as largely confined to coastal forests, with 2 species being strictly endemic to this ecoregion (Afrixalus sylvaticus and Stephopaedes sp. nov).

    Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic 2008

  • Hanks and Hodges seem to have been beguiled by the spelling, which is clearly arbitrary, and to have ignored the evidence in their own research for the alternative Poynton.

    My name | Linguism 2008

  • In these years he had written so much, and in so much dramatic detail, about houses, that his friend the architect Edward Warren offered to make him drawings of Gardencourt or Poynton, Easthead or Bounds, houses he had described room by room, full of carefully created atmosphere, treasured ornament and faded tapestry.

    The Master Colm Tóibín 2004

  • I do not believe that The Spoils of Poynton or The Awkward Age or The Other House are worthy of your talent.

    The Master Colm Tóibín 2004

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