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"It's not an easy thing to go through a grieving process... and it's particularly not easy when there's been so much attention," cattle farmer and councillor for the shire Nathan Hersey told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
A pair of orphaned racehorse foals have been adopted by a shire horse in Devon.
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
A giant metal box sits in a field next to the shire council: one of several air-quality monitoring stations paid for by the mining and power-generating industries.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
At least eighteen hands high, but not thick in the way of shire or draft horses.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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
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
Thirteenth-century law evidently makes the contrast between Kent and adjoining shires more sharp than it ought to have been, if all the varieties within the county were taken into account.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
