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  • Nearer to the eye, the sullen flow of the tidal river Alde ebbed noiselessly from the muddy banks; and nearer still, lonely and unprosperous by the bleak water-side, lay the lost little port of Slaughden, with its forlorn wharfs and warehouses of decaying wood, and its few scattered coasting-vessels deserted on the oozy river-shore.

    No Name 2003

  • At its opposite extremity the street leads to a deserted martello tower, and to the forlorn outlying suburb of Slaughden, between the river Alde and the sea.

    No Name 2003

  • The padd itself was quite impressive, too-its border had an ornate pattern of fighting Alde-baran serpents, and the back had a relief representation of a nude Orion female carved into it.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • The moon Alde stood above a snowpeak, turning it argent, though this place lay at a goodly height.

    The Queen of Air and Darkness Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1973

  • Alde, half the seeming size, was a thin slow crescent near Sirius, which she remembered was near Sol, but you couldn't see Sol without a telescope

    The Queen of Air and Darkness Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1973

  • Suffolk which of old was almost encircled by the little river Alde, and in which the church is also dedicated to St. Botulph.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • We were racing down the long drear shingle bank of Oxford, past what they call "the life-boat house" on the chart (there is no life-boat there, nor ever was), past the look-out of the coastguard, till we saw white water breaking on the bar of the Alde.

    Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Alde Garden, The White Horse Inn, Low Road, Sweffling, Suffolk, IP17 2BB 01728 664178; aldegarden.co.uk.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • "_Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde_," vol.ii. p. 63.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • Eula Woodruff was staying with me but went home Christmas Eve to go to a Christmas Tree at Alde.

    The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines 2010

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