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  • The building, started in 1778 by one of the long line of Church Langton Hanburys, is flanked on either side by pedimented screens designed to make the building look more imposing.

    The Langton Messiah Peter Ashley 2008

  • But he discovers that the Hanburys aren't the same anymore.

    Snap Judgment: Books 2007

  • "Yes, I imagine so, well, along comes Hendryx who had left Barnard's Crossing in his early teens, and the Hendryxes were of the same social class as the Hanburys, she had known him, and it's quite possible that in spite of the difference in their ages she could have had a crush on him."

    Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet Kemelman, Harry 1976

  • December 8, 1779, in possession of Allen and Hanburys, London.

    Drug Supplies in the American Revolution George B. Griffenhagen

  • As his means were not sufficient to support his family, he entered in 1808 the brewery of Truman, Hanbury & Company, of which his uncles, the Hanburys, were partners.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Not the old Union Depot, with its wooden sheds, where Honora had gone so often to see the Hanburys off, that grimy gateway to the fairer regions of the earth.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • It was on a blue afternoon in late November that Aunt Mary and Honora, with Cousin Eleanor and the two girls, and George sulking in a corner of the carriage, were driven through the gates behind Bias and the fat horses of the Hanburys.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • It was on a blue afternoon in late November that Aunt Mary and Honora, with Cousin Eleanor and the two girls, and George sulking in a corner of the carriage, were driven through the gates behind Bias and the fat horses of the Hanburys.

    A Modern Chronicle — Volume 01 Winston Churchill 1909

  • Brices, the Ishams, and I know not how many others had sent their tributes, and Honora's second cousins, the Hanburys, from the family mansion behind the stately elms of Wayland Square -- of which something anon.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Honora could not bear the sound of the trains that drifted across the night, and the sight of the trunks piled in the Hanburys 'hall, in Wayland Square, always filled her with a sickening longing.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

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