west-country

Here was a perfect place to lie low for a while, until a one-day warmup against Somerset on Thursday: an unprepossessing business hotel in a west-country market town, a place for pondering and wondering, reflecting on careers that might, if the evidence proves irresistible, be about to end in shame.

Pakistan reach the Holiday Inn ? an unlikely backdrop for next act of drama David Hopps in Taunton 2010

On October 16, 1629, the Kirkes crossed soundings on the coast of England, and ran into the west-country port of Plymouth.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Virginia was mainly colonized by west-country people.

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On October 16, 1629, the Kirkes crossed soundings on the coast of England, and ran into the west-country port of Plymouth.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

My father, rest his saul, was a horse-couper, and used to say he never was cheated in a naig in his life, saving by a west-country whig frae

The Monastery 2008

Some of the west-country Societarians standing by, who would have ‘rejoiced more than in great sums’ to be at their hanging, hustled them so rudely that they knocked their heads together.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Company, late merchants in London, now in Dunkirk, I think it right to send you this early and private information, that the vessels you expected have been driven off the coast, without having been able to break bulk, or to land any part of their cargo; and that the west-country partners have resolved to withdraw their name from the firm, as it must prove a losing concern.

The Black Dwarf 2004

Many people may think me foolish, especially after coming from London, where many nice maids looked at me (on account of my bulk and stature), and I might have been fitted up with a sweetheart, in spite of my west-country twang, and the smallness of my purse; if only I had said the word.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Oh, my poor boy, were you to blame for being kind to me when I was ill in the old west-country inn?

Armadale 2003

He thought of the sea; he thought of his yacht lying idle in the fishing harbor at his west-country home.

Armadale 2003