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  • Author Hailey Giblin was brutally attacked by Huntley in a secluded orchard near her home in Humberston, Lincolnshire in 1997 but did not report the attack to Police until some ten months later.

    Huntley Back To Court? Thatsnews 2006

  • Author Hailey Giblin was brutally attacked by Huntley in a secluded orchard near her home in Humberston, Lincolnshire in 1997 but did not report the attack to Police until some ten months later.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • A logic satisfying this weaker replacement property is called selfextensional by Wójcicki and congruential by Humberston (Humberstone, 2005).

    Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic Jansana, Ramon 2006

  • In the immediate neighbourhood there was no custom for basket-work, but Waife's performances were so neat, and some so elegant and fanciful, that he had no difficulty in contracting with a large tradesman (not at Humberston, but a more distant and yet more thriving town about twenty miles off) for as much of such work as he could supply.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • George's father had been an intimate friend of his kinsman, the Marquess of Montfort (predecessor and grandsire of the present lord); and the marquess had, as he thought, amply provided for George in undertaking to secure to him, when of fitting age, the living of Humberston, the most lucrative preferment in his gift.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • They had come from Humberston the day after those famous races which annually filled Humberston with strangers -- the time of year in which Rugge's grand theatrical exhibition delighted that ancient town.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The necessity of this caution was so obvious that Lady Montfort could only send her most confidential servant to inquire guardedly in the neighbourhood, until she had summoned George Morley from Humberston, and taken him into counsel.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Humberston, like most towns under the political influence of a great House, was rent by parties, -- one party, who succeeded in returning one of the two members for Parliament, all for the House of Montfort; the other party, who returned also their member, all against it.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • He had then accepted an invitation to spend a week or two with the Rev.Mr. Allsop, the Rector of Humberston; a clergyman of the old school, a fair scholar, a perfect gentleman, a man of the highest honour, good-natured, charitable, but who took pastoral duties much more easily than good clergymen of the new school -- be they high or low-are disposed to do.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Humberston (that town was not many miles distant from Montfort Court), who, though he had no impediment in his speech, still never himself preached nor read prayers, owing to an affection of the trachea, and who was, nevertheless, a most efficient clergy man.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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