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Wearied by London Dissipation, the Marjoribanks Browns go, for the sake of perfect quiet, to that picturesque little watering-place, Shrimpington-super-Mare, where they trust that they will not meet a single soul they know.
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Wearied by London Dissipation, the Marjoribanks Browns go, for the sake of perfect quiet, to that picturesque little watering-place, Shrimpington-super-Mare, where they trust that they will not meet a single soul they know.
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But we may believe that, even there, manners are no longer quite so hideous as in the little Tweedside watering-place.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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I was the first person to see that the town could be made into a flourishing watering-place, and I was the only one who saw it at that time.
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The titles of rank, birth, and fortune, are received at a watering-place without any very strict investigation, as adequate to the purpose for which they are preferred; and as the situation infers a certain degree of intimacy and sociability for the time, so to whatever heights it may have been carried, it is not understood to imply any duration beyond the length of the season.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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If you were ever at a watering-place, reader, you know that while the guests do not always pay the most polite attention to unmarked individuals, the appearance of a stray lion makes an interest as strong as it is reasonable, and the
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Yon are their pages and squires, whom they train up in their accursed mysteries, and whom, as lighter mounted, they send to cut us off from our watering-place.
The Talisman 2008
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I was the first person to see that the town could be made into a flourishing watering-place, and I was the only one who saw it at that time.
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A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane of the watering-place, was on the shore.
Les Miserables 2008
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No intimacy can be supposed more close for the time, and more transitory in its endurance, than that which is attached to a watering-place acquaintance.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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