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  • Porges lived a few miles away on the Piccadilly Line at Rayners Lane, where there was a confluence of tube lines with a triangular island of long grass and brambles between them.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Porges lived a few miles away on the Piccadilly Line at Rayners Lane, where there was a confluence of tube lines with a triangular island of long grass and brambles between them.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I left with him at 6. 45am this morning, and spent most the journey home (Rayners Lane to Baker Street, Baker Street to Canning Town) longing desperately for a seat so that I could close my eyes and go back to sleep.

    The One That's The Longest For A While kisobel 2007

  • The Rayners own an estate in East Hampton near the homes of Calvin Klein and Steven Spielberg.

    Cox Cable Family Welcomes Another to Sutton Place 2001

  • In the course of the parting interview she expressed herself perhaps a little less guardedly than was either just or considerate; and Eve, flushed and at war with the whole race of Rayners, departed that afternoon to seek a situation elsewhere.

    Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories 1928

  • You favor the Rayners, "he was saying I remember your dad, an 'a fine feller he was."

    The Man of the Forest 1919

  • Within the week succeeding the departure of the Rayners and Miss

    The Deserter Charles King 1888

  • And so it happened that when the Rayners drove to the station that bright afternoon, and a throng of ladies and officers gathered to see them off, some of the youngsters going with them into town to await the coming of the train, Nellie Travers had been surrounded by chattering friends of both sexes, constantly occupied, and yet constantly looking for the face of one who came not.

    The Deserter Charles King 1888

  • Hayne had already talked over their prospective visit with Major Waldron, and the latter had told his wife; but all intercourse of a friendly character was at an end between them and the Rayners and Buxtons; there were no more gossipy chats among the ladies.

    The Deserter Charles King 1888

  • The Rayners were to go East at once, so it was said, though the captain's leave of absence had not yet been ordered.

    The Deserter Charles King 1888

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