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  • “Did I ever tell you that I grew up in Blackport?”

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • “Did I ever tell you that I grew up in Blackport?”

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • Well, they tried to get rid of these deck chairs from Blackport in northern England, but they are so popular and they are so comfortable that they've decided to keep them instead, because they said American loungers were just too posh for the British seaside resort.

    CNN Transcript May 21, 2004 2004

  • Just to show you the kind of thing they are doing, I saw one transport machine, the Blackport, into which a whole lorry can be driven, into which I saw driven not only a field gun with the tractor which towed it, but with the field gun on top of the tractor, and two of those went in to that transport machine.

    Britain Goes Over the Top 1954

  • As to the editorship, it was simply heaven-sent, being not at all another case of _The Blackport

    Embarrassments Henry James 1879

  • The daily balm meanwhile was in what one knew of the book -- there were exquisite things to know; in the quiet monthly cheques from Blackport and in the deeper rose of Maud's little preparations, which were as dainty, on their tiny scale, as if she had been a humming-bird building

    Embarrassments Henry James 1879

  • _Beacon_, small ironies and ecstasies, great phrases and mistakes; and the very week it came out poor Limbert devoted half of one of his letters to it, with the happy sense this time of gratifying both himself and me as well as the Blackport breakfast-tables.

    Embarrassments Henry James 1879

  • And that's it, apart from Andy Korman's suggestion of Roy of the Rovers, with Roy Race's Melchester Rovers being stiffed by an earthquake during their opening match of the 1986-87 season against Blackport.

    The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2010

  • And that's it, apart from Andy Korman's suggestion of Roy of the Rovers, with Roy Race's Melchester Rovers being stiffed by an earthquake during their opening match of the 1986-87 season against Blackport.

    Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk Rob Smyth 2010

  • An otherwise less-than-mediocre thriller earns maybe a passing glance thanks to an interesting performance by Blackport.

    DVD Verdict 2008

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