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The Deanery is a very pleasant dwelling, the gardens very large, and the river running through them; but the floods in winter sometimes incommode the gardens very much.
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The Deanery is a very pleasant dwelling, the gardens very large, and the river running through them; but the floods in winter sometimes incommode the gardens very much.
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The Deanery is a very pleasant dwelling, the gardens very large, and the river running through them; but the floods in winter sometimes incommode the gardens very much.
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Part of the ancient refectory wall is concealed behind bookcases in the Abbot's long room, and there are other remains of monastic times in the Deanery, which is a rambling old house, added to by successive Deans, with many a picturesque corner and secret chamber.
Westminster Abbey A. Murray Smith 1877
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The Deanery is a very pleasant dwelling, the gardens very large, and the river running through them; but the floods in winter sometimes incommode the gardens very much.
From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" Daniel Defoe 1696
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Paradise, you'd very likely meet him coming back -- the Deanery is the big house in the far corner yonder. "
The Paradise Mystery 1899
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This was the tenth year that the North Oxford Deanery has held this procession.
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Deanery, their home as the family of the Dean of Christ Church,
A Note about Alice I Have Been by author Melanie Benjamin 2010
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Shaped like a parallelogram, the mansion stood before a triangular forecourt, and a massive stone wall enclosed the grounds, and passage was gained through the lodge stationed at the entrance where Deanery Street ran into Park Lane.
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Jenny Meadows revisits her old school, Deanery high school in Wigan, a better experience than appearing on Mastermind.
Jenny Meadows: 'I used to be a bit of a girl racer, but not any more' | Small Talk 2011
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