shire

"It was a bit of a shock for Sammy the shire when she went out in the field and the two thoroughbreds whizzed around the field like two racehorses," she added.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023

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

“As long as other countries are willing to buy it from us, we’re going to be mining coal,” said Godfrey Adamthwaite, a retired third-generation mineworker who serves on the Singleton shire council.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021

One comment simply read: "Anything that ends with shire will do me, Lincolnshire or Yorkshire."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2021

It was probably the shire reeve’s horse, for above the slow clatter over the cobbles Robin could hear the grating of runners on a kind of sled the horse was dragging.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

It is one of the society’s 20 kingdoms in North America, each of which is subdivided into provinces, baronies and shires.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2018

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

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

The bogus Twitter page depicts Mrs Bone standing in her kitchen in Northamptonshire, known by its appreciators as "the rose of the shires", in true Margaret Thatcher pose.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2011

He afterwards established the 'Manchester Courier,' which he for some time edited, and was well-known in the northern shires.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Leyland, Francis A.