Devons

They were directors of the great railroads tributary to the city, and in touch with the political machines, and in every other way in position to know what was under way: if a new subway were built to set the swarming millions free, the millions would find the land all taken up, and apartment-houses newly built for them -- and the Devons were the owners.

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

But the Devons are a good regiment -- perhaps the best here now -- and, under the command of Major Curry, they held.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

And what a perfect description of cows: “Herefords and Devons with placid faces and round heads, but still with that otherworldly look cattle have, that sense of having just patiently waddled in from some long-ago.”

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » NATURAL MAGIC: inspiration from the animal world 2008

And there, there, bearing down on me, is a great mob of cattle, not hairy, not horned, it is true, for they are Herefords and Devons with placid faces and round heads, but still with that otherworldly look cattle have, that sense of having just patiently waddled in from some long-ago.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » NATURAL MAGIC: inspiration from the animal world 2008

Yesterday in Boston, more than 70 members of a military police battalion out of Ft. Devons returned home.

CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2007 2007

GRACE: Her perpetrator, her adopted father, American pedophile, living the good life here in a mental facility, Devons (ph) Prison Hospital.

CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2006 2006

And that sentence will begin when he ` s released from Devons (ph).

CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2006 2006

Devons voice is bright as the sunshine, painting streaks on the walls.

Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy Ellen Hopkins 2004

Devons voice is bright as the sunshine, painting streaks on the walls.

Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy Ellen Hopkins 2004

Devons voice is bright as the sunshine, painting streaks on the walls.

Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy Ellen Hopkins 2004