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  • The UK book chain Blackwell photograph of the first Backwell bookshop in Oxford will offer print-on-demand in its book shops.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Jak Boumans 2008

  • Backwell, the goldsmith, for the purchase money of Dunkirk.

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

  • Head, and that all he possessed, aside from the inn, was in gold, lodged with Backwell, but for all that, my plan could not be considered for a moment.

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

  • The day after the adventure of Frances and Nelly at the Old Swan, I had business with Backwell, the goldsmith, and when I had disposed of my matters, I walked over to the Old Swan near by to eat a grilled lobster,

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

  • At eight o'clock this evening they are to be placed in the hands of your cousin, Mistress Jennings, together with the bill drawn on Backwell of Lombard Street, for the sum of one hundred thousand pounds.

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

  • Silver, mind you, hammered from unalloyed coin by Backwell himself.

    The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884

  • Major Matthew Collins, 38, from Backwell in Somerset, and Lance Sergeant Mark Burgan, 28, from Liverpool, were killed on Wednesday when their vehicle was caught in a blast from an IED improvised explosive device.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Backwell carried on his business in the same shop which was afterwards occupied by Child.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

  • Backwell -- the three brothers of the name of Forth, of whom King Charles

    The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696

  • Backwell retired into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 06: June/July 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668

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