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Warwickshire: synonyms: Shakespeareʼs County ???

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a county in central England with the largest of the five districts being Stratford-upon-Avon.
George Eliot and William Shakespeare were both born in this county.

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Of his two younger sons, one had gone into the Fusiliers and been speared at Suakim; the other had broken his neck on a hunting-field in Warwickshire.

Grant Allen. The Woman Who Did.

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And what did you do? You called for a horse and rode a-hunting to Warwickshire.

Charlotte Brontë. Shirley

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Warwickshire jesuits are tried and we have a porter’s theory of equivocation.

James Joyce. Ulysses

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Earl of Warwick: In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends / Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war;

William Shakespeare. The Third Part of Henry the Sixth (1623)