Hawker Sentence Examples

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  • A large dragonfly, possibly the Southern Hawker was spotted.

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  • There were a large number of banded demoiselles, and several hawker dragonflies.

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  • A wandering hawker unfurls dazzling tie-dyed sheets and vivid printed cloth.

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  • An unexpected encounter with a southern hawker did that for me this weekend.

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  • A number of dragonfly species use the pools including the Norfolk and common hawker.

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  • Migrant hawker and black-tailed skimmer are two of the dragonflies commonly recorded and regularly seen butterflies include small copper, common blue and brimstone.

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  • My mother got him as a kitten of a hawker (gypsy or tinker) who was selling tea towels and other household goods.

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  • Few dragonflies, but the common one was a hawker with a royal blue body and apple green thorax and eyes.

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  • His father, Jacob Stephen Hawker, was at that time a doctor, but afterwards curate and vicar of Stratton, Cornwall.

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  • Singapore's popular hawker stalls are actually serving up a melting pot of culinary delights forged by Singapore's unique multi-cultural heritage.

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  • Maggie Dickson was a fish hawker who left Edinburgh in 1723 after being deserted by her husband.

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  • The Hawker Hurricane was the first fighter monoplane to see service with the RAF and the first capable of exceeding 300 mph.

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  • The tower is without bells, and the tradition that a ship bearing a peal hither was wrecked within sight of the harbour, and that the lost bells may still be heard to toll beneath the waves, has been made famous by a ballad of the Cornish poet Robert Stephen Hawker, vicar of Moorwinstow.

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  • Hawker described the bulk of his parishioners as a "mixed multitude of smugglers, wreckers and dissenters of various hues."

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  • The only one of these that need be noticed is that which provides that after the market is opened for public use every person, other than a licensed hawker, who shall sell or expose for sale in any place within the district, except in his own dwelling-place or shop, any articles in respect of which tolls are authorized to be taken shall be liable to a penalty.

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  • In 1848, while making a tour in Cornwall, Tennyson met Robert Stephen Hawker of Morwenstow, with whom he seems - but the evidence is uncertain - to have talked about King Arthur, and to have resumed his intention of writing an epic on that theme.

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