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  • They claim the constant 66-decibel hum — close to the sound a vacuum cleaner generates — was ‘unbearable’ even though they wore earplugs at night and installed double glazing at the farmhouse in Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved 2010

  • We arrived here very easy and safe, and while we were considering of what way we should travel next, we found we were got to a point, and that there was no way now left but that by the Washes into Lincolnshire, and that was represented as very dangerous; so an opportunity offering of a man that was traveling over the fens, we took him for our guide, and went with him to Spalding, and from thence to a town called Deeping, and so to Stamford in Lincolnshire.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • They claim the constant 66-decibel hum — close to the sound a vacuum cleaner generates — was ‘unbearable’ even though they wore earplugs at night and installed double glazing at the farmhouse in Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved 2010

  • The challenge, which is presently under review by the Chief Constable of Lincolnshire (England) has its origins in a claim by a community administrator in the rural riverside community of Market Deeping (on the border between Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire) that a local photo-journalist had "pandered to pedophilia" by taking a photograph during an award ceremony at the local community center to which the "press" had been invited.

    Storm in a provincial tea-cup as British 'bobbies' go extra-judicially ballistic over alleged 'kiddie porn' 2008

  • But they sat silent on their horses, and they gazed down upon the Deeping-coomb.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • The dark shadow yonder is the mouth of the Deeping-coomb.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • From Deeping-coomb they rode to Isengard, and saw how the Ents had busied themselves.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Beneath it by a wide culvert the Deeping-stream passed out.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Then to their amazement they found that the road ran on, and the Deeping-stream beside it; and the sky was open above and full of golden light.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Against the Deeping Wall the hosts of Isengard roared like a sea.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

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