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  • When Louis Winthorpe III hits rock bottom, he soars to the highest ranks of cinematic Santas.

    MTV News Doles Out Our Christmas Movie Awards » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • On the bus ride home, Winthorpe pulls the fishy filet out of his suit and gnaws on it as if it were his own flesh.

    MTV News Doles Out Our Christmas Movie Awards » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • The bathing arrangements in general at this time were somewhat poor, the nearest military baths being at Bailleul, about four miles away, so that we were very delighted at receiving during our stay at Locre, from Miss Gilstrap, of Winthorpe, Newark, three galvanised iron baths, with boiler complete.

    The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

  • When Dolly Winthorpe offered Master Marner some lard-cakes, she said:

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • He was conscious that he was at Winthorpe hamlet, but quite unconscious how he had got there.

    Women in Love 1907

  • "Yes," he said, "it's a circumstance to be thankful for, because, like Winthorpe himself, though for different reasons, I'm unable to contemplate marriage."

    My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883

  • But Winthorpe, calm and smiling, would not be moved.

    My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883

  • And Winthorpe (always with something of that ecstatic light in his eyes) proceeded to answer.

    My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883

  • John was tall, but Winthorpe seemed a good deal taller -- though, (trifles in these matters looming so large), had actual measurements been taken,

    My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883

  • Winthorpe, while that "almost ecstatic" light shone in his eyes, had been speaking.

    My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883

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