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- proper noun A very rare
Scottish surname of unknown origin - proper noun A
novel (and subsequent series) by Walter Scott - proper noun A
railway station inEdinburgh - proper noun Any of several
placenames in several countries
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Examples
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Waverley "asserts identity of denotation between _Scott_ and _the author of Waverley_.
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921
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The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley – Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.
Waverley 2004
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They were gone, and that was why I flew immediately from the house to the old place in Waverley Avenue.
The Filigree Ball 1903
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"The house in Waverley Avenue?" she objected wildly, with the first signs of positive terror I had ever beheld in her.
The Filigree Ball 1903
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He asked if she was Mrs. Jeffrey's sister, and when she nodded and gasped 'Yes,' he blurted out that Mrs. Jeffrey was dead; that he had just come from the old house in Waverley Avenue, when she had just been found.
The Filigree Ball 1903
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The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley
The Waverley 1877
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The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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The extensive domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained its pristine and savage character.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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