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  • "Stukeley," he said with heat, "you are a trait'rous cur.

    Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910

  • As the walk gets into its finishing stride, you pass the King Barrows still sleeping along their ridge, some of the few sites that remain unexcavated the local farmer didn't want the trees cut down, and the mysterious Cursus group of Bronze Age barrows, so named because 18th-century antiquarian William Stukeley thought it must have been built by the Romans for chariot races.

    Magic circles: walking from Avebury to Stonehenge 2011

  • Here's what William Stukeley wrote as told to him by Newton:

    Newton's apple tree bound for gravity-free space 2010

  • I bet if you stood on the chimney of the farmhouse you'd be able to see Major Manor on the hill at Great Stukeley.

    Old Street No 1 Peter Ashley 2008

  • As he pottered about his garden in the old black velvet suit, purloined, Nash says, from a saddle for which he had not paid, his thoughts were all of power and glory; of Stukeley and Drake; of “the winners of gold and the wearers of gold”.

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • Stukeley (1740) through Edward Davies (1809) — fur - nish mystically patriotic speculation.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

  • Of the three other claimants to pre-eminence, Sebastian lends his aid to the base Moor and is defeated and slain; Stukeley, the

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

  • The first act is entirely devoted to the campaign which places Abdelmelec on the throne of the usurping Moor; not until the fourth scene of the second act does King Sebastian of Portugal come upon the stage; only from that point onward are we concerned with his unsuccessful attempt -- in which he is assisted by Stukeley -- to restore the crown of Morocco to Muly Mahamet.

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

  • 'Lusty Stukeley' (the name was spelt in several ways) was far from among the worthiest of his family, but distinctly the most entertaining.

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • Captain Stukeley was a more interesting character off the stage than on; the details of his life may be found in Fuller, or in Dyce's prefatory note to the play in his edition of Peele's works.

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

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