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When they finally arrived at Woodlands Farm in Quainton, they were exhausted.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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Alfhild quickly persuaded a farmer in nearby Quainton to let her family stay as paying guests on his farm.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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The Great Central Railway (GCR) was the last main line to be built, from Annesley in Nottinghamshire to Quainton Road in Bucks.
Railway Echo No 7 Peter Ashley 2008
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Within a week of the Grenada operation, Tomás Borge, a Nicaraguan comandante, called on our ambassador, Anthony Quainton, to inform him that if the United States ever wanted to evacuate Americans from Nicaragua, please call Borge and he would facilitate their departure.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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Within a week of the Grenada operation, Tomás Borge, a Nicaraguan comandante, called on our ambassador, Anthony Quainton, to inform him that if the United States ever wanted to evacuate Americans from Nicaragua, please call Borge and he would facilitate their departure.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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Oxford branch at Verney Junction; this line is used by the Great Central railway, the main line of which continues north-westward from Quainton
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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He found him in the garden of his comparatively small establishment on the Quainton side of the town.
The Wonder 1910
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"She's a Quainton, with Italian blood in her veins."
The Loudwater Mystery Edgar Jepson 1900
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These houses at Quainton are very humble abodes; other almshouses are large and beautiful buildings erected by some rich merchant, or great noble, or London City company, for a large scheme of charity.
Vanishing England 1892
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Quainton being the judge, the visiting of alehouses, the good conduct of the inmates, who were to be "no whisperers, quarrelers, evil speakers or contentious."
Vanishing England 1892
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