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Liverpool
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tags: [geography]
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Definition:a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017. Its metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the UK, with a population of 2.24 million in 2011.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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I’m going to Liverpool to-day, what shall I bring you?
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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I believe he intended to refer me to Liverpool; and then in the City of London here.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
--- pockets, which he imagined were sure to carry signs in the shape of hotel-bills of the places he had stopped in, if he had not told the truth in saying that he had come straight from Liverpool because he was ill and had no money.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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I took leave of my wife, and boy and girl, with tears on both sides, and went on board the Adventure, a merchant ship of three hundred tons, bound for Surat, captain John Nicholas, of Liverpool, commander.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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