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  • The best known of these were Ransomes of Ipswich, the makers of the best ploughs in the world, Smythe of Peasenhall, who made drills, again unsurpasses by anyone else, Garretts of Leiston and a number of smaller firms such as Page & Girling of Woodbridge, who made farm vehicles with especially well made axles.

    Archive 2007-06-03 2007

  • The Ransomes Cobmaster twin-feed pedal-operated sheller has an hourly output of

    Chapter 11 1981

  • When I left the Ransomes that fine spring morning, I had not the slightest presentiment of what the world held in store for me.

    The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment David Grayson 1908

  • I spent two days there with the Ransomes, for they would not hear of my leaving, and half of our spare time, I think, was spent in discussing

    The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment David Grayson 1908

  • Before the Ransomes and the Randalls knew where they were the banns had been put up in Wandsworth Parish Church and in the Parish Church of

    The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

  • In all cities there are many thousand Ransomes, more or less confined in mahogany cages, but John Randall Fulleymore stands for all of them.

    The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

  • And regularly once a week the young Ransomes had their Sunday dinner at Wandsworth; they reckoned it as one square meal.

    The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

  • Because of Ranny's wife, Respectability, the enduring soul of the Randalls and the Ransomes, could never lift up its head superbly any more.

    The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

  • The Ransomes, to be sure, stood more in the center, they were more deplorably bespattered, and more, much more intimately tainted.

    The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

  • If, among the Randalls and the Ransomes, such a plunge as Violet's was unheard of, it made the more terrific splash, a splash that covered the whole family.

    The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

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