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Word: holmwood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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Usage:

...brush" to tatters smacks of sacrilege. One of the ladies of the Union Hunt Club loudly declared that whoever the pedestrian fox hunters were they should be shot with their own rifles. Up to her stepped one Bert Batchelor, doughty wheelwright: "Those poor dogs are ours. . . . We are the Holmwood Hunt. Saving your displeasure, the Surrey Union Hunt has ridden out so seldom of late that the foxes are getting thicker and stealing our poultry and stock. We have a license to kill vermin, and we thought we might as well have a bit of sport while we were about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Huntsmen | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

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