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Hyderabad, and who left a large sum of money to an earlier institution, the Parental Academy, which was afterwards called Doveton
The Story of Madras Glyn Barlow
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Major Doveton came next, with his Indian banjo, which was even harder to tune than my fiddle.
Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959
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Doveton, who obtained his Captaincy in the service of the Nizam of
The Story of Madras Glyn Barlow
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Arabs kept General Doveton at bay with his whole army at Nagpur for several days, repulsing our attack at the breach, and they gained their fullest terms.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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I have told in the account of Winterbourne Bishop how I first went to that village just to see his native place, and later I visited Doveton for no other reason than that he had lived there, to find it one of the most charming of the numerous pretty villages in the vale.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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It is not surprising that Caleb Bawcombe invariably speaks of his migration to, and of the time he passed at Warminster, when, as a fact, he was not there at all, but at Doveton, a little village on the
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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It happened that when the Bawcombes settled at Doveton, just as Mr. Ellerby had taken to the shepherd, making a friend of him, so Mr.. Ellerby took to the shepherd's wife, and fell into the habit of paying frequent visits to her in her cottage.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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Yarnborough Castle sheep-fair -- Caleb leaves Doveton and goes into
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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When Bawcombe had taken up his new place at Doveton, his master, Mr. Ellerby, watched him for a while with sharp eyes, but he was soon convinced that he had not made a mistake in engaging a head-shepherd twenty-five miles away without making the usual inquiries but merely on the strength of something heard casually in conversation about this man.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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Then Mr. Ellerby told him that he had taken a notion into his head that he wanted to go abroad with his wife for a time, and that some person had just made him so good an offer for all his sheep that he was going to accept it, so that for the first time in eighty-eight years there would be no sheep from Doveton Farm at the Castle fair.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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