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  • Check out his video on elitism in Sheffields schools.

    Crib Sheet 26.10.10 Judy Friedberg 2010

  • The Longrens were in the same social circles as the Sheffields, at least on the outer orbits, since the Sheffields were a circle of their own.

    Goodnight, Irene Burke, Jan 1993

  • It is a fine, if temporary, addition to Sheffields otherwise bland skyline.

    Why us? 2009

  • The sublime person of “the historian” as the Sheffields called him is attended by a companion whom they called, as if he were the solitary specimen of some extinct race,

    The Death of the Moth, and other essays 2002

  • The last of the Sheffields was Elinor Sheffield Hollingsworth, who had married a handsome young Harvard law graduate who was now the district attorney of Las Piernas.

    Goodnight, Irene Burke, Jan 1993

  • The earliest Sheffields had started a general store, then a bank, then a pharmacy, and so on and on; they bought and sold real estate in and around Las Piernas to amass the original fortune, and added to it when one of the Sheffield grandchildren developed a knack for making ice cream.

    Goodnight, Irene Burke, Jan 1993

  • Secretly he scorned the bustling new-rich like the Dagenhams and Sheffields who still jaunted and were unshamed.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • Secretly he scorned the bustling new-rich like the Dagenhams and Sheffields who still jaunted and were unshamed.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • He scorned the bustling new-rich like the Dagenhams and Sheffields who still jaunted and were unashamed.

    Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

  • The redeeming point, as always, is that infinitely superior good taste which presents us, in the midst of coal-mines and desolation, not with our own unspeakably squalid Sheffields or Rotherhams, but with a queenly city, with broad and handsome streets, with a wealth of public gardens, and with many stately remnants of the Renaissance and

    Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris

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