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The 10th hole at the Belfry is a drivable par-4, but players must avoid the menacing water hazard in front of the green.
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Willumhoog had been here in Belfry Lane, and interviewed Vrouw Voorhaas while they were away somewhere?
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The dove-cote was a room on the top floor of the little house in Belfry
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A week had passed since the disappearance of the boy, and not a sign or a token had come to the anxious watchers in Belfry Lane, to indicate his whereabouts or his fate.
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There is the church of Saint Pancras, and there is our house in Belfry Lane.
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Two more days passed and the conditions in Belfry Lane continued about the same.
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"The Belfry was a golf resort, where the course supported the hotel," he says.
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The smile she had given to the Belfry was the last flicker of her self-control, and halfway through lunch the grey melancholy that
The Belfry May Sinclair 1904
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"Belfry" was loudly shouted by the opposition group.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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The word "Belfry" is derived from the French _bel_, "beautiful, becoming, meet," and from the German _frei_, "free unfettered, secure, safe."
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
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