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So Sally and I set about our celebrations, she with Parsonage Farm free-range egg, Langport asparagus, jack by the hedge and cheddar-and-cumin soldiers, then River Looe red mullet, Somerset spinach, confit tomatoes and Portreath crustacean sauce.
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The flowers are a soapy white and unbelievably elegant, and several buds will relay to keep you in flower for more than a fortnight – Kelways of Langport supplies (01458 250 521).
Perfect peonies 2010
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Other people have placed it at Langport in Somerset, and no doubt other places too.
The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts? Carla 2008
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His death, on the 24th of March 1877, occurred at Langport very suddenly, when he was in the fullest mental vigour and might have looked forward to the accomplishment of much additional work and the exercise of even wider influence.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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If we accept this tale we must decide that it was another Geraint who fell fighting at Langport.
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It is possible that he whose name thus survives was truly the Arthurian champion; we may certainly give him the benefit of the doubt, and believe that this was the Geraint who married the sweet Enid, who tested her faith so harshly, and who died at Llongborth (probably Langport in Somerset) about the year 522.
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Horses, on the River, between Langport and Bridgewater, in the
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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A squadron of horse trotted by, closely followed by the fourth regiment, bearing in its van the standards of Beaminster, Crewkerne, Langport, and Chidiock, all quiet Somersetshire villages, which had sent out their manhood to strike a blow for the old cause.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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It was a time in which everybody whispered mysteriously that a very strong candidate, name unknown, would suddenly appear at Yeovil, Langport, or Chard -- I forget which of these pleasant little towns was the place of nomination
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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At Langport, Somerset, the pews were similarly adorned on Palm Sunday with sprigs of the catkins from willow trees to represent palms.
The Parish Clerk 1892
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