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  • Two fires damaged overnight including the Ashby Baptist Church in the Briarfield (ph) Community.

    CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2006 2006

  • Supplehough, or to inflate my lungs with a Barraclough, in horror and denunciation of the diabolical rector of Briarfield.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • 'Miss Keeldar, does the person reside in Briarfield? answer me that.'

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Five generations of my race sleep under the aisles of Briarfield Church: I drew my first breath in the old black hall behind us. '

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • London, sometimes for a week or a fortnight together; well, while he was away, I found his absence a void: there was something wanting; Briarfield was duller.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Briarfield gossips are capable of saying that or sillier things. '

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Were you ordained vicar of Briarfield, you would find it no easy task to sustain all the active schemes for the benefit of the parish planned and persevered in by your predecessor.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • 'I would not show that to any one in Briarfield but you, because you can take it quietly.'

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Mr. Helstone, at that time curate of Briarfield, loved Mary too or, at any rate, he fancied her.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • This fellow, 'he added, standing up at the table, and pointing across it to Matthew -' this fellow forgets, what every cottier in Briarfield knows, that all born of our house have that arched instep under which water can flow - proof that there has not been a slave of the blood for three-hundred years. '

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

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