Thorncliff

I am likely unmoved by any argument for anything other than Grant Trunk Line, but if the lines do indeed run out to Thorncliff and beyond, and the Junction and beyond, a name that evokes the distances to each side might be good.

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“But,” continued Rashleigh, as if thinking aloud, “I should not like to supplant Thorncliff.”

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“He certainly hinted, that were it not for the idea of supplanting his brother, he would now, in consequence of his change of profession, be desirous that the word Rashleigh should fill up the blank in the dispensation, instead of the word Thorncliff.”

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Percie is seldom sober, my father pitched on Thorncliff, as the second prop of the family, and therefore most proper to carry on the line of the

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Thorncliff on my right hand, and cousin Dickon, who sate on Miss

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The strong Gyas, and the strong Cloanthus, are not less distinguished by the poet, than the strong Percival, the strong Thorncliff, the strong John, Richard, and

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A bet or two opportunely lost to Dickon, and an extra health pledged with Percie, placed me on an easy and familiar footing with all the young squires, except Thorncliff.

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He patted at the same time the neck of the horse which had carried him so gallantly; and my attention being directed by that action to the animal, I instantly recognised a favourite mare of Thorncliff

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To say the truth, the compliment was so expressed, that the lady might easily appropriate the greater share of it, for Thorncliff seemed an arrant country bumpkin, awkward, shy, and somewhat sulky withal.

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Thorncliff, however, who in his rude way seemed not absolutely insensible to the beauty of his kinswoman, appeared determined to keep us company more closely than his brothers, — perhaps to watch what passed betwixt Miss Vernon and me — perhaps to enjoy my expected mishaps in the chase.

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