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They passed down Findlay Avenue, its shabby genteel mock-gothic mansions turning blind eyes to them, and plunged into Legion Street at the roundabout where that great highroad settles down to its uninterrupted run to the northwestern suburbs.
More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949
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They passed down Findlay Avenue, its shabby genteel mock-gothic mansions turning blind eyes to them, and plunged into Legion Street at the roundabout where that great highroad settles down to its uninterrupted run to the northwestern suburbs.
More Work for the Undertaker Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1949
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Walpole's mock-gothic became something of a laughing-stock, after the true principles of medieval architecture were better understood.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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He bought Midford Castle, an 18th century mock-gothic folly near Bath for £5 million in 2007.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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To Mrs. Weston’s fancy of a match between Mr. Knightley and Jane (II. vii, 201), Emma reacts first with a mock-gothic ghost of her own fears of affinity ( How would he bear to have Miss Bates belonging to him?
Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games 2000
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