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  • Wholesale limestone quarrying immediately west has ruined that end of the ridge but the rest, down towards the villages of Ramshorn and Wootton, is lovely, green hill territory with scattered farms and historic connections.

    Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands 2011

  • Williams was found Saturday by some people on the golf course near the Ramshorn Court area in the Landings.

    Archive 2007-10-07 Bill Crider 2007

  • Williams was found Saturday by some people on the golf course near the Ramshorn Court area in the Landings.

    Gator Update (Killer Apprehended Edition) Bill Crider 2007

  • My older brother and I have gone fishing down much of Ramshorn Creek.

    F&S Classics: Death in the Moonlight 2003

  • These sounds might make an amateur uneasy; but I was used to them all, and it was with our customary unconcern that my brother and I staked one end of our seine at the north side of Ramshorn Creek, and then, paying out the net as we rowed across the mouth, staked the other end at the south side.

    F&S Classics: Death in the Moonlight 2003

  • Yet at the same hour, at the Ramshorn site, because of the ashes from their fires left upon the shore, young Swenk, most eagerly and enthusiastically, like some seeking animal, approaching and examining the same and then going on — swiftly.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • And then Harley Baggott and Grant and Harriet at about noon announcing that there — just ahead — was the fine beach they had in mind — the Ramshorn, a spit of Land commanding from its highest point all the length and breadth of the lake.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • "A thousand Ramshorn Gas -- four per cent. guaranteed until the act?"

    Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

  • Here Mr.. Ramshorn woke, and the subject was dropped, leaving Mr. Wingfold in some perplexity as to this young man and his talk, and what the phenomenon signified.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1 George MacDonald 1864

  • An old friend of Mr.. Ramshorn, a lady-ecclesiastic like herself, dined with them; what the two may have said to each other in secret conclave, I cannot tell, but not a word of remark upon Mr. Wingfold or his sermon was heard at table.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

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