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  • They had been walking in Norbury Park, which they admired very much; and Mrs. Barbauld very elegantly said: 'If there was such a public office as a legislator of taste, Mr. Lock ought to be chosen for it.'

    Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney 1904

  • "Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."

    News from the House of Sticks - 2009

  • "Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Denise, a 17-year-old from Norbury who had spent the day at the Brixton Splash music festival, was sitting on a grass mound talking to friends.

    A fire lit in Tottenham that burned Manchester: the rioters' story 2011

  • During the long ride, Patty Norbury told them the reason she had volunteered to come to Ceylon was to try to find her fiancé, Lieutenant Roy Wentz Jr., who had been stationed with the Tenth Air Force in Burma.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • During the long ride, Patty Norbury told them the reason she had volunteered to come to Ceylon was to try to find her fiancé, Lieutenant Roy Wentz Jr., who had been stationed with the Tenth Air Force in Burma.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

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