Word: cheviot
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...perhaps a cheviot or pepper-and-salt...
Hope-Taylor was guided to it by the Venerable Bede, whose history of early Britain (written in the 8th century) related that Edwin, a 7th century king of Northumbria, had a royal palace of sorts at Gefrin, which is now the small (six houses) village of Yeavering in the Cheviot Hills. No visible traces remained, but in 1951 Cambridge University made an air survey of the region. Pictures of a field of sprouting barley showed a vague rectangular shadow and a smaller, wedge-shaped...
Brake with Tradition. In Cheviot, Ohio, Matthew Fames was officially informed that his excuse was "first class original" after he was arraigned for passing a red light, testified: "I just bought this car, and I didn't want to step on the brakes too hard...
...Hell, no, that's the wrong idea!" boomed Rafael Cheviot Schmegegghi, professor of Obstetrics, when he heard that the phenomenon was to take place at the beginning of the Jubilee weekend...
Waring, with 2,000 laying hens, is on the fringe of commercial chicken farming, and Teller raises Cheviot sheep to be sold for breeding purposes. But they raise most of their own foodstuffs, most of their animal feeds, and they stuff themselves and their families with eggs, chicken, mutton and milk...