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Then I rode into Shallop with Sir William, and he had a fit of some sort -- apoplexy, I fancy -- and I had to come back and fetch Lady
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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It was market day at Shallop, and the usual crowd of pigs and sheep and cattle, with their attendant drovers and farmers, blocked the streets.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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So well, indeed, that even if he had intended permitting Lady Maltby to proceed to Shallop without him, she would not have let him go.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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One unfortunate person, too desirous of getting quickly on shore, had his legs broken under the Shallop, and was taken and laid on the beach, and left to the care of Providence.
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The market town of Shallop was eight miles distant, and the only public communication with it was the carrier's cart, which went to and fro twice weekly.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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Then came there in a complainte against Captain [46] Martin, that having sente his Shallop to trade for corne into the baye, under the commaunde of one Ensigne Harrison, the saide Ensigne should affirme to one Thomas
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
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She had heard the wheels of the fly he had procured from Shallop, and she found him in the little hall waiting for her.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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Drake, thinking that it would be quicker to consent -- that is to say, to ride into Shallop and cut across the country to Shorne Mills, yielded; the horses were brought round, and after Sir William had disposed of a tankard of ale, by way of a good, old-fashioned stirrup cup, the two men started.
Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice
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The second document is styled by Purchas: “A Note Found in the Deske of Thomas Wydowse, Student in the Mathematickes, hee being one of them who was put into the Shallop.”
Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909
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The two on Shallop creek still standing have cost, in labor -- superintendence & materials, about $90 which will be about the cost of those I propose to build upon Rutman's creek.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908
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