Cornishman

1 A Cornishman has admitted shooting dead his sister's donkey after an argument.

2 When he falls head over heels for the mine captain’s new wife, Polly, a cadre of crazy Cornishmen take off in hot pursuit of the poet and his muse.

3 In Cornwall I once tried my hand with my brother, some strong Cornishmen, and a team of terriers, at a very innocent-looking badger "set" situated in a level field.

4 Here is the well by which "Jack the valiant Cornishman Did slay the giant Cormoran."

5 The Cornishman, published by Local World, sold an average of 14,500 copies in the final six months of 2012, down 7.3% on the same period the year before.

6 Wind in the Willows under hammer Descendants of the Cornishman who's said to be have been the inspiration for Ratty in 'Wind in the Willows' have sold a first edition copy of the novel.

7 “Mr. X——, is it true that you are a Cornishman?”

8 I am indebted to my kind publishers for their deep interest in these folklore tales, and to Mr. J. Ley Pethybridge, a Cornishman, for so faithfully depicting many of the scenes referred to.

9 I recall an intelligent Cornishman–a cook with a kitchen kept sweet and clean–who with a laugh contemplated the catastrophe of the snake-room, and the nervous collapse, and the bedraggled return to the woods.

10 To repeat an illustration already in use—many such populations may be Hindú only as the Cornishmen are English.

11 Two of his prospectors, one a Cornishman, the other a Yankee, sat by the fire, smoking.

12 But the Cornishmen were quite ready for another revolt, and indeed had invited Perkin to their shores.

13 Had Adams won, everything was in place for the Cornishman to meet Kasparov for the right to challenge Kramnik in a championship unifier which would have boosted English chess.

14 I am proud to call myself a Cornishman - I was born and bred in Cornwall and it will always be my home.

15 Patch told of finding “a Cornishman” on the battlefields ripped to shreds by shrapnel who begged to be shot.

16 Of Clemens the Cornishman we still hear, though less frequently than we should like.

17 As the Cornishman gazes around his publishers' modern offices in Hammersmith, you wonder whether the bright young things at their keyboards fully appreciate the punishment their latest author has absorbed.

18 The Cornishman looked round to his friend for an explanation.

19 I can't tell you any more about him, save that he was a big Cornishman, rawboned, and vulgarly rich.

20 Finding plenty of miners among the Cornishmen of the 32d, he sunk a countermine for each mine burrowed by the enemy.

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