Mowbray

Not far from Melton Mowbray is a tiny hamlet, just off the undulating road that winds through the Leicestershire wolds up to Colsterworth.

Unexpected Alphabets No 4 Peter Ashley 2008

At the Surveyor General's Office, I would like to thank Ken Lester in Mowbray and Eddie Sparrow in Cape Town for the time they took explaining the practice and history of surveying in South Africa.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Simon Mowbray from the trade magazine The Grocer told The Sunday Telegraph chocolate sales have fallen from $3.9 billion to $3.7 billion because youngsters are spending more money on mobile phones than on candy.

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Langdon's activities, I recalled Mowbray Langdon's curious phrases and looks and tones.

The Deluge David Graham Phillips 1889

We remember especially a fine and quite remarkable avenue of banyan-trees on what is called the Mowbray

Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

For my excellent grand-uncle had pondered with himself, that the favoured name of Mowbray would take no advantage, and attain no additional elevation, if his estate of Nettlewood (otherwise called Mowbray-Park) should descend to our family without any condition; and with the assistance of a sharp attorney, he settled it on me, then a schoolboy,

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

"Remember what that letter o 'Mowbray's said?" interjected Jack quickly.

The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Elliott Whitney

"Since she has been down with the old Lady Fawn, she has written a note to Camperdown, — after leaving all his letters unanswered for the last twelvemonth, — to tell him that Lord Fawn is to have nothing to do with her property, and that certain people, called Mowbray and Mopus, are her lawyers.

The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872

"Since she has been down with the old Lady Fawn, she has written a note to Camperdown, -- after leaving all his letters unanswered for the last twelvemonth, -- to tell him that Lord Fawn is to have nothing to do with her property, and that certain people, called Mowbray and Mopus, are her lawyers.

The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848

"Mowbray," said Lord Etherington, lowering his voice, and taking him by the arm, "it is true that I did so -- and truly glad I am to observe, that, whatever might have been the consequences of such an accident, they cannot have been serious.

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801