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  • His one heroine, Isopel Berners, had 'Fair Play and Long Melford' as her ideal, 'Long Melford 'being the good right-handed blow with which Lavengro conquered the Tinman.

    George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

  • Tinman, "getting the victory by using his" Long Melford, "on the advice of that towering and handsome female bearing the name of Isopel Berners, who now comes on the scene, and who will ever remain one of the most fascinating figures in the wonderful gallery of Borrovian characters.

    Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 James Hooper

  • Richard Roper, 63, of Long Melford, Suffolk, was instead ordered to spend just over an hour at the back of Sudbury Magistrates' Court.

    Richard Roper I salute you. A man who paid his fine on bogroll! FIDO The Dog 2008

  • Richard Roper, 63, of Long Melford, Suffolk, was instead ordered to spend just over an hour at the back of Sudbury Magistrates' Court.

    Archive 2008-12-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • ‘Now, will you use Long Melford?’ said Belle, picking me up.

    Lavengro 2004

  • And when the Flaming Tinman got his knock-down blow from Borrow's right, Isopel exclaimed, 'Hurrah for Long Melford; there is nothing like Long Melford for shortness all the world over!'

    The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent

  • Lavenham, Long Melford, Thaxted, Saffron Walden, Lynn, Snettisham, lofty and spacious, which the clothiers built out of their newly won wealth.

    Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

  • Gloucestershire, and the Clopton chapel at Long Melford in Suffolk, are shut off from the adjacent parts of the church, and belong to that class of chantry chapel of which our cathedrals furnish many examples.

    The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church 1912

  • The Long Melford plan, with a projecting altar space, and without a chancel arch, is nearly universal in Cornwall, and is common in south Devon, where, as at

    The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church 1912

  • Trunch, Southwold, and Clare, its tall side windows flood the space with light The most striking example of this plan is at Long Melford in

    The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church 1912

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