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  • On the other side of the Steyne were the naked Downs, while the Lewes road and the London Road were mere thoroughfares between equally bare hills, with

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • About 1220, Henry Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin, founded a hospital in honour of God and St. James in a place called the Steyne, near the city of Dublin, and endowed it with lands and revenues.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • (whose opulent charms, preserved in the permanency of mosaic, may be seen in the Museum); when the Steyne was a centre of fashion and folly; coaches dashed out of Castle Square every morning and into Castle Square every evening; Munden and Mrs. Siddons were to be seen at one or other of the theatres; Martha Gunn dipped ladies in the sea; Lord Frederick

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • _ -- Can any of your correspondents give the derivation of the word "Steyne," as used at Brighton, for instance? or the origin of the name "Adur," a small river running into the sea at

    Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

  • Miriam Hopkins heads a sure-fire cast (Nigel Bruce is especially delightful as Joseph Sedley, as is Cedric Hardwicke as the depraved Marquis of Steyne), and the script (from a play based on the novel) horsewhips Mira Nair's crap 2004 version up and down the street.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • Looking down upon these, Bacon saw that the Marchioness of Steyne would be at home to Mr. Arthur

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • He would say, “My Lord Bareacres has been good enough to invite me to Bareacres for the pheasant shooting,” or, “My Lord Steyne is so kind as to wish for my presence at Stillbrook for the Easter holidays;” and you may be sure the whereabouts of my brother the Major was carefully made known by worthy Mr. Pendennis to his friends at the

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Marquis of Steyne was entertaining at his country-house at

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • English gentleman should play where the fashion is play, but should not elate or depress himself at the sport; and he told how he had seen his friend the Marquis of Steyne, when Lord Gaunt, lose eighteen thousand at a sitting, and break the bank three nights running at Paris, without ever showing the least emotion at his defeat or victory.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Pen by Doctor Goodenough, the Major told with almost tears in his eyes how his noble friend the Marquis of Steyne, passing through

    The History of Pendennis 2006

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