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Examples

  • Architect Mike Tonkin (of Tonkin Liu) designed the penthouse, which is built on top of an existing warehouse building on Clere Street in the London borough of Islington.

    Clere Street Penthouse by Tonkin Liu 2008

  • Queen – Hoo Hall and closely guarded; meanwhile he anxiously inquired of young St. Clere about his wound.

    Waverley 2004

  • Henry St. Clere, in a few words, proceeded to explain the adventure to the curious audience.

    Waverley 2004

  • The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen: “Methinks St. Clere, so distinguished for service in war, should have been more forward in the chase.”

    Waverley 2004

  • Boteler, astonished at such a scene, anxiously inquired at St. Clere the meaning of what he saw, and whether more danger was to be expected?

    Waverley 2004

  • While the ladies supported Emma from the hall, Lord Boteler and St. Clere requested an explanation from Fitzosborne of the words he had used.

    Waverley 2004

  • The Lady Matilda was now come up, with most of the attendants; and the interest of the chase being ended, it excited some surprise that neither St. Clere nor his sister made their appearance.

    Waverley 2004

  • He sees the old country in long years after, when, with some of the wealth garnered on the rolling prairies of Northern Australia, his son has proudly bought back the family domain of Clere in all the completeness of its original acres.

    Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

  • Bless me, there's General McLeod of Clere; I have not seen him for years.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • Captain Ferrers and Dr. Rayne, both frequent visitors at Clere, assert that the General grows younger.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

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