Thornaby

In February 1940, he led a flight of three Lockheed Hudsons from an RAF Coastal Command base at Thornaby-on-Tease.

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The Liberal Democrats and local independent groupings covering Thornaby and Ingleby Barwick will form the opposition after refusing to serve in a rainbow coalition.

Working with the Tories 2007

This is his rope-ladder, with the telescope walking-stick he used to hook it up with; he's said to have 'ad it with him the night he dined with the Earl of Thornaby, and robbed the house before dinner.

A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures 1893

Albany: it was from the Right Hon. the Earl of Thornaby, K.G.; and it requested the honor of my company at dinner, at Thornaby House, Park

A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures 1893

Whereto Quarrier replied that teetotalers might be eternally condemned; he would stick by his ale as tenaciously as the old farmer of Thornaby Waste.

Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880

But a reäds wonn sarmin a weeäk, an 'I 'a stubb'd Thornaby waäste.

Enoch Arden & c. 1863

Wi 'auf the cows to cauve an' Thornaby holms to plow!

Enoch Arden & c. 1863

Compare the Northern farmer with St. Francis; the palm hardened by stubbing Thornaby waste, with the palm softened by the imagination of the wounds of Christ.

Mornings in Florence John Ruskin 1859

But the greatest part of the good work of the world is done either in pure and unvexed instinct of duty, "I have stubbed Thornaby waste," or else, and better, it is cheerful and helpful doing of what the hand finds to do, in surety that at evening time, whatsoever is right the Master will give.

Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

The incident, involving a Toyota Corolla Verso, happened on the A66 at Thornaby, Stockton, at about 05:43 BST.

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