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  • "Rumbold," he retorted, "what's the value of a secret when it's not a secret?

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Various 1915

  • "Rumbold," he retorted, "what's the value of a secret when it's not a secret?

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

  • I could not even start to count the problems with the above statement, however I think this quote from Richard Rumbold (1622-1685), British soldier reetty sums my objections as well as any long winded refutation I couls assemble: QUOTATION: "I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden."

    Sound Politics: "Should the Handicapped Be Banned From Express Buses?" 2006

  • I could not even start to count the problems with the above statement, however I think this quote from Richard Rumbold (1622-1685), British soldier pretty sums my objections as well as any long winded refutation I could assemble: QUOTATION: "I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden."

    Sound Politics: "Should the Handicapped Be Banned From Express Buses?" 2006

  • Angela Rumbold was widely praised for achieving a boundary review that would massively help the Tories in 1997 by taking Tory voters out of safe seats and sticking them in marginals.

    The Boundary Commission - Shake-up Needed 2006

  • Richard Rumbold pretty well sums up the difference between your philosophy and mine when he said: "I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden."

    Sound Politics: A failed school district should dissolve itself, now 2006

  • Rumbold said to them what a capital place this house of his would be from which to shoot at the King, who often passed there going to and fro from Newmarket.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • One of those Englishmen who had been assigned to him was that old soldier Rumbold, the master of the Rye House.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Rumbold, the china dealer next door, seemed hostile from the first for no apparent reason, and always unpacked his crates with a full back to his new neighbour, and from the first Mr. Polly resented and hated that uncivil breadth of expressionless humanity, wanted to prod it, kick it, satirise it.

    The History of Mr. Polly 2003

  • “Ello!” said Rumbold, suddenly erect and turned about.

    The History of Mr. Polly 2003

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