Chapter XXV

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence or deeply revered.

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

except for; apart from

From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest

From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

a thing, without saying which

From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

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From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading It is a willingness, save the mark, which grows on the motorist with experience and familiarity with the new locomotion.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading We will start by way of Lexden, but we will not halt there, full of interest as it is; for Lexden is but two miles from the heart of Colchester, and it shall be assumed that, at some time or other, the motorist will walk these two miles for the sake of his health and of his figure, and spend a little time in examining a spot of real interest.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

in the company of; together with

From this reading A nice little drive, with a pause for tea and antiquarianism, of forty or fifty miles may be taken from Colchester any fine summer's afternoon by following something like the route here laid down.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

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From this reading Thirty years ago this sentence would have been held to be proof positive of lunacy in the writer; now it is a conspicuous illustration of his willingness to be contented with moderately long journeys.

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by Nayland--A commanding hill--The church--Constable's praise--Gainsborough at Sudbury--"Damn your nose, madam!"--Gainsborough at school--"Tom Peartree"--Gainsborough's Suffolk landscapes--Long Melford--A halt for an exceptional church--Seventeenth-century monograph on--Inscriptions in flint--Long Melford a centre of the cloth trade--The Martins, or Martyns, and the church--Its past glories--Its splendid treasures--Ancient customs--The Cordells--Cavendish, the home of the Cavendish family--Clare and "the illustrious family of Clare"--Strongbow--The Valley of the Colne--The De Veres and Castle Hedingham--Macaulay on their fame--Their end--Little Maplestead--A round church--Back to Colchester.