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three kingdoms
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tags: [geography]
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Definition:This can infer one of many disparate kingdoms, but in 19th century English literature it usually refers to the kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland
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He threw himself into a chair, laughing and groaning, and bid them all stand off, for he was nearly killed—he would not have such another walk for the three kingdoms.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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"I shall take a mere mouthful of ham and a glass of ale," he said, reassuringly. "As a man with public business, I take a snack when I can. I will back this ham," he added, after swallowing some morsels with alarming haste, "against any ham in the three kingdoms. In my opinion it is better than the hams at Freshitt Hall—and I think I am a tolerable judge."
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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