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At Sundon, not far from Dunstable, we dug and occupied our first real trench system, which after a preliminary skirmish at night, when rockets were used to guide the attacking troops, had to withstand a heavy dawn attack by the Lincoln and
The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman
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One day that lord Sundon laughed at something which Doddington had said,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 Various
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"You are very ungrateful: you see lord Sundon takes your joke."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 Various
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Lady Sundon was of an obscure family, of the name of Dyves.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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Lady Sundon was, meantime, ill at Bath, so that the queen's secret rested alone in her own heart.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847
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Memoirs of my Lady Sundon, Lord Fanny Hervey, and innumerable others, rise on us, beckoning fantastically towards, not an answer, but some conceivable intimations of an answer, and proclaiming very legibly the old text, "_Quam parva sapientia_," in respect of this hard-working much-subduing British Nation; giving rise to endless reflections in a thinking Englishman of this day.
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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How Lady Sundon had wormed herself into that mystery was never known.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Lady Sundon had proposed to him to unite with her, and govern the kingdom together: he bowed, begged her patronage, but said he thought nobody fit to govern the kingdom, but the King and Queen.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Lady Sundon had received a pair of diamond ear-rings as a bribe for procuring a considerable post in Queen
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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When he came home, he said to me, "Now, Horace, I know by possession of what secret Lady Sundon (115) has preserved such an ascendant over the Queen."
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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