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  • Today only the church remains.020-7836 5221The classic, half-timbered style that launched a thousand 20th-century "Tudorbethan" eyesores rarely reached Moreton's levels of artistry back in the day, but this fairy-tale edifice testifies to the continuous prosperity and experimentation of the era.

    The Renaissance in Britain: examples from the era 2011

  • Here Moreton's prose and ability to stand back and evaluate more than justifies the £20 price tag.

    Is God Still an Englishman? by Cole Moreton Peter Stanford 2010

  • Moreton's "Make Payroll, Not War," Alice O'Connor's "Financing the Counterrevolution," and Jeremi Suri's "Détente and Its Discontents" show us in detail how the forces of conservatism responded to the events of the day and rose to the top of American politics.

    Making America Conservative in the 1970s 2008

  • Moreton's "Make Payroll, Not War," Alice O'Connor's "Financing the Counterrevolution," and Jeremi Suri's "Détente and Its Discontents" show us in detail how the forces of conservatism responded to the events of the day and rose to the top of American politics.

    Harvard University Press Publicity Blog : 2008

  • Moreton's usual calmness had caused the sudden outburst to be noticed with surprise.

    The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

  • No beautiful partner of a free-love affair appeared, but an elderly woman in spectacles who had once been Professor Moreton's cook, and now, doing all the housework for Ben, contrived to make him so comfortable that the editor of a more radical paper than his own had described the flat as "a bourgeois interior."

    The Beauty and the Bolshevist Alice Duer Miller 1908

  • In Lord Moreton's famous hybrid from a chestnut mare and male quagga, the hybrid, and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more plainly barred across the legs than is even the pure quagga.

    On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

  • In Lord Moreton's famous hybrid from a chestnut mare and male quagga, the hybrid, and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more plainly barred across the legs than is even the pure quagga.

    On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 05 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

  • In Lord Moreton's famous hybrid from a chestnut mare and male quagga, the hybrid, and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more plainly barred across the legs than is even the pure quagga.

    On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845

  • This was a cousin of Miss Moreton's, a respectable clergyman.

    Belinda 1801

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