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Example sentences for: abbey

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When the castle was built atop the hill, the original city of Edinburgh grew on this ridge, reaching down in a ribbon of development toward the Abbey of Holyrood, at the foot of the hill in the east.
It is they, therefore, as much as anybody, who are to blame for the continuing fiction that Abingdon means town of the abbey, that Boston is named for St. Botolph, that Coventry means place of the abbey, that the second word of Leighton Buzzard represents French beau désert, that Lichfield means field of the corpses, that Maidstone means Medway town, that Morpeth means moor path, that Redruth means town of the Druids, that Southend is so called because it is at the southern end of Essex, that Westminster is a minster west of St. Paul's Cathedral, and so on.
reads the poet's inscription on his tomb at Westminster Abbey.
Sir Boss had managed to find him at the abbey, during his two days' absence, and now he came back in the nick of time to fight Sir Mador for the queen.
In 1544 the English invaded, set fire to the palace, and sacked the abbey.