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  • F — went off to Westbury with her cousin Greville for escort yesterday, and I am here ordering all things for her and my final flight.

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

  • At the date of which I am speaking, a small settlement known as Greville stood in the south-western section of the large State of Missouri, as it is now known.

    The Hunters of the Ozark Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • They called themselves 'Greville', which suggested Norman blood, and, by the end of the sixteenth century, the family had been ennobled by the crown with the title Lord Brooke.

    'Aristocrats' 2010

  • -- Second part of 'Greville' published; 2,700 copies subscribed.

    Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. John Knox Laughton 1872

  • There are lengthy digressions on Milton, Fulke Greville and Marvell, poets whose vivid personal histories Greville was murdered by a servant in 1628 make for good reading but whose connection with the Cavalier theme seems tangential.

    Pens at the Ready Mark Archer 2011

  • The work is vast in range and appropriately wild in spirit, like Greville Worthington's Black Library, charred remains of carbonised books intended as the soil for growing vegetables to be served in the library.

    This week's new exhibitions Robert Clark 2010

  • Greville gives Emma to Sir William in exchange for relief on his debts.

    Scandalous Women on Film: That Hamilton Woman Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • Greville gives Emma to Sir William in exchange for relief on his debts.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • Princess Diana's family, the Spencers, began as graziers; the Grevels, who later poshed up their name to the more Norman-sounding Greville just as Wesley became Wellesley were dealers in fleeces.

    In the Realm of Peers 2010

  • (Soundbite of laughter) Ms. PEARL: And then the town, who all have such wonderful, wonderful names and there's a Greville and Neville and Sybil.

    Librarian Nancy Pearl's 2009 Under-The-Radar Books 2009

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