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  • The posh leather goods shop on Turl Street was having a closing down sale, there's other posh shops on the way (many clothes ones), and after all there's always Dixons for technology (except that it seems to be called Currys now).

    September has been a blessedly quiet month jinty 2006

  • King, bicycling rapidly down the greasy Turl with an armful of books, collided vigorously with another cyclist at the corner of the High.

    Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923

  • "Tell her," he substituted, "that you have seen Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage," and limped quickly away down the Turl.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • "Tell her," he substituted, "that you have seen Marius sitting among the ruins of Carthage," and limped quickly away down the Turl.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • Spinney's shop in the Turl and had benefited by Spinney's experience, and Dennison with the assistance of Collier's scout, and in spite of

    Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904

  • I met Mr. Ward in the Turl yesterday; he was only up for two or three hours, and I thought he said he was going to coach.

    Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904

  • Instead of turning down the Turl, I saw Dennison run down the

    Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904

  • Turl, and the first name he saw was G. Marten (St. Cuthbert's), back.

    Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904

  • Turl, and doubled back up the High Street, sword in hand.

    The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • As we turned into the Turl between Exeter and Jesus colleges there, at the end of the street -- it is little more than a lane -- beyond the spire of All Saints 'this planet was shining.

    Hetty Wesley Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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