shire

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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

Garry Keeffe, the CEO of the local shire of Northampton, says its biggest benefit will be stable work in a place where the last Australian Bureau of Statistics census put the average age at 51.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2020

At least eighteen hands high, but not thick in the way of shire or draft horses.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby