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The family showed shire horses, he said, which his son was passionate about.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
More recently, his works have also provided a fertile shire for nationalists who see themselves in his heroic archetypes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
One comment simply read: "Anything that ends with shire will do me, Lincolnshire or Yorkshire."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2021
A baseball cap was a take on a horse-riding helmet alongside a flared pant with a fringed hem cleverly resembling a shire horse’s leg.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Look at the surnames of Londoners compared to those in the shires.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2017
The 1,200 constituents who showed up for his forum — residents of Hollywood, Burbank, Silver Lake — are terrified of what’s been wrought by the faraway shires of Oshkosh, Grand Rapids, Erie and Dayton.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2017
But away from the nostalgia and a sense of living in the shires, do boundary changes actually matter?
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2013
Railing at wind farms from his perch in his favorite pub in the Kent countryside, Farage tries to articulate the fading voice of the English shires.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 11, 2013
Of course the old days were better when they found themselves leading "The cream of the cream in the shire of the shires."
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Beatrice Violet Graham Greville
