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  • The couple had moved along to the left, lingering as though trying to make up their minds whether to traverse the road, towards the railway station, with its old cobbled forecourt, and the cross, ravaged by weather and time - the last of twelve crosses erected by Edward I at the stopping places of Queen Eleanor's funeral cortge as it made its way from Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • They watched, in silent awe, the slow _cortge_ creep down the long, straight road and lessen on the view, until by and by it stopped where a wild, unfrequented path branched off into the undergrowth toward the rear of the ancient city.

    Old Creole Days 1879

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