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  • Freke is a powerful man and a member of the Alpine Club.

    Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

  • The independent member having taken the Chiltern Hundreds, vacates his seat: a new election comes on directly: the Luttridgcs are to bring in Freke – not Harriot's cousin – they have cut him, – but her husband, who is now to commence senator: he is to come in for the county, upon condition that Luttridge shall have Freke's borough.

    Belinda 1801

  • Mrs Luttridge offered (I've seen the letter, and Harriot's answer) to bring in Freke, the husband, and to make both a county and a family peace, on condition that Harriot should give up all connexion with Lady Delacour.

    Belinda 1801

  • Harriot Freke is visited by every body but old dowagers and old maids: I am neither an old dowager nor an old maid – the consequence is obvious, my lord.

    Belinda 1801

  • The man who went to Levy's house in his place knew the house: Freke knew the house; he was a red-haired man, smaller than Levy, but not much smaller, since he could wear his clothes without appearing ludicrous: you have seen Freke — you know his height — about five-foot-eleven, I suppose, and his auburn mane; he probably wore surgical gloves: Freke is a surgeon; he was a methodical and daring man: surgeons are obliged to be both daring and methodical.

    Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

  • I started reading The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, and started feeling like a fraud when I went to church.

    Brenda Wilhelmson: Sweet Or Bitter Hereafter? Brenda Wilhelmson 2011

  • I started reading The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, and started feeling like a fraud when I went to church.

    Brenda Wilhelmson: Sweet Or Bitter Hereafter? Brenda Wilhelmson 2011

  • My car is named Freke, a reference to Norse mythology.

    waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2005

  • Perhaps the Freke family could furnish an account of this learned lady.

    Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 Various

  • Mr. Parker and Sir Julian Freke walked up the road together.

    Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

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