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  • The last place in the world the spies of the Iron Heel would dream of looking for me, and for Ernest when he joined me, was Wickson's deer-park.

    Chapter 18: The Shadow of Sonoma 2010

  • Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.

    The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. commodorified 2008

  • “And that the heir of Clovelly,” said Frank, smiling, “may find more noble examples to copy than the stags in his own deer-park.”

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • There was no deer-park at Allington; and though the Allington woods were well known, they formed no portion of a whole of which the house was a part.

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

  • In addition to these, he had his extensive demesne, his deer-park, and his unrivalled timber, wherewith to console himself; and, in the consciousness of these possessions, he found some imperfect assuagement of those bitter feelings of suppressed scorn and resentment, which a sense of lost station and slighted importance engendered.

    The Evil Guest 2003

  • Thus, when the late Mr. Fulford succeeded to the family property in 1847, he found himself the owner of a majestic old dilapidated mansion, surrounded by a deer-park, which had been gradually growing less until the portion of the park devoted to this purpose was little more than a big field.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

  • "I scarcely thought that such a place as this would be an object to Mr. Fulford -- a gentleman of great position, with a deer-park and all that sort of thing."

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

  • Unfortunately, the, minister committed himself too far to draw back before making inquiries, when he learned that a deer-park having existed at Fulford for some four or five centuries, its owner had kept as a memento of grand old days a little remnant of the herd in

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

  • The scene of the deer-park wherein he judges beasts and men, carefully weighing the tiniest birds in the balance of the sanctuary, suggests a prophetic vision of the greater Saviour, Who declared that even the humble sparrow is remembered by the Creator.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

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