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What time was it when you stopped at Powlett Street?
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A short distance past the Grammar School I was hailed by a gentleman in a light coat; he was smoking a cigarette, and told me to drive him to Powlett
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CALTON: Is the prisoner the same gentleman you drove to Powlett
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Powlett, but I know no more, except that his presence is an additional reason why one should explore the forest on foot.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Brasses to members of the Halsham family are within, and a monument to Captain Powlett, whose unquiet ghost, hunting without a head, we have just met.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Powlett, Howard and Falmouth; though the last, be it said, is believed to be influenced by his respect for the day in his refusal to run his horses in France.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Powlett, supported by Barnston's Detachments, under Captain Guise, of the 90th.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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His rights of government he left in trust to the Earls of Oxford and Powlett, to be disposed of; but no sale being ever made, the government, with the title of Proprietaries, devolved on the surviving sons of the second family.
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Powlett Street, East Melbourne (designedly, as it now appears, in order to throw suspicion on Fitzgerald), has vanished as completely as the witches in Macbeth, and left no trace behind.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Fergus Hume 1895
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He paid me half-a-sovereign for my fare, and then walked up Powlett
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Fergus Hume 1895
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