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Gemma Spofforth of Britain, the defending champion and world record holder from Britain, did not make the final after suffering a bout of food poisoning.
Michael Phelps Loses To Ryan Lochte In 200-Meter Freestyle At World Championships 2011
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Spofforth took 14 for 90 at The Oval as Australia inflicted a first ever home defeat on their hosts and created the Ashes.
England can still win the Ashes – they just need KP to have a shave Harry Pearson 2010
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English batsmen who saw Spofforth glugging down his sherbet during the drinks intervals were totally spellbound by the bobbing of the gigantic thyroid.
England can still win the Ashes – they just need KP to have a shave Harry Pearson 2010
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Former secretary and now assistant archivist Nina Benson, of Spofforth, near Harrogate, explains.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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It changed the game like nothing since, for we saw what fast bowling could be - and it was fast - you talk about Spofforth and Brown, but none of them kicked up the dust like those early trimmers.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Soon afterwards Georgiana, Duchess of Sutherland, interested herself in him, and had him placed under Spofforth, the chief singing master of the day, under whose tuition he greatly improved, taking London by storm.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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"Hanged if I like the idea of those huge brutes leaping right upon us," whispered Spofforth.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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Down in a convulsive heap fell Spofforth and the lioness, the brute frantically pawing both her antagonist and the dust in her death agonies.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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Spofforth was the giant of the battalion, standing six feet four inches in his socks, and proportionately broad of shoulder and massive of limb.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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"How about turning out the machine-gun section?" asked Spofforth.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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