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Examples
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"Trenchard," said he in strange, hissing whisper, "there is a curtained door behind you -- whom are you hiding in there?
Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"Trenchard," he muttered; "Aliva Trenchard -- they were right, then, as to the name.
Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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The Trenchard Barracks in Celle and Münster station will be handed back to the German authorities, and Rheindahlen Military Complex will be closed.
UK troops to withdraw from Germany by end of decade under MoD plans 2011
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In the 1720s, Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard used "Cato" as a pen name for their famous letters on liberty.
On Life, Liberty and Other Quotable Matters John J. Miller 2011
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As the English political writer John Trenchard explained in 1721, “All Men are animated by the Passion of acquiring and defending Property, because Property is the best Support of that In dependency, so passionately desired by all Men.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar 2010
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I am not, unless you consider a classic liberal, what we today would call a libertarian in the mold of Trenchard and Gordon of the Independent Whig, to be a Liberal.
Joe Should Go grrm 2010
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Also, no Federalist Papers and no Trenchard and Gordon — contemporary expressions of the impulses that became conservative core of American social philosophy.
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Our Top Commanding Officer was Marshal Viscount Hugh Trenchard (at left - Ed) and he was a tough individual.
Seizing appetite by the NAPE ewillett 2008
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It was made up out of the toughest individuals in the R.A.F. and General Trenchard was the Commanding Officer in London.
On the occasion of Madeleine L'Engle's 90th birthday... ewillett 2008
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(Trenchard told us the night before just to give “R.A.F.”)
What I've Just Read: Off Armageddon Reef ewillett 2008
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