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'My name's Heldar, and my friend's called Torpenhow; and you must be sure to come here.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'Torpenhow's course is perfectly clear,' said the Keneu.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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In old churches, such as the eleventh century structure at Torpenhow, in Cumberland, the deep sockets still to be seen in the stone door jambs were intended to support great beams with which the church had constantly to be fortified against Scottish invasion.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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For all answer Dick took a long breath, unbuckled his belt, and shouted from the saddle at the top of a wearied and dusty voice, 'Torpenhow!
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Torpenhow who -- but the tale of their adventures, together and apart, from Philae to the waste wilderness of Herawi and Muella, would fill many books.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It gives a lonely man a sort of hankering, doesn't it? 'said Torpenhow, piteously.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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As the Nilghai quaked against his will at the still green water of a lake or a mill-dam, as Torpenhow flinched before any white arm that could cut or stab and loathed himself for flinching, Dick feared the poverty he had once tasted half in jest.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Torpenhow gave her a check and went to his own rooms.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'"Moll Roe in the Morning,"' said Torpenhow, at a venture.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Dick glanced at Torpenhow, whose left eyelid lay for a moment dead on his cheek.
The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900
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