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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of southeast England on the Thames River east of London. Is is known as “the Gateway to the Port of London.” Pocahontas is buried here.
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Examples
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I have just been watching the Newsnight report on the drugging of girls at Kendall house, a children's home in Gravesend, between the 1960s and 1980s.
Diocese of Rochester's shameful silence over the drugging of girls in its care 2009
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I wrote the other day about the drugging of children at Kendall House, a children's home in Gravesend run by the Diocese of Rochester, between the 1960s and 1980s.
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A quick switch to Maps on the iPad reveals a small town, to the east of London, not far from a place called Gravesend, which Richards recalls "They didn't call it Gravesend for nothing ..."
Patrice Peyret: Fix yourself a great e-trip with Keith Richards, an iPad and Google maps. Patrice Peyret 2010
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A quick switch to Maps on the iPad reveals a small town, to the east of London, not far from a place called Gravesend, which Richards recalls "They didn't call it Gravesend for nothing ..."
Patrice Peyret: Fix yourself a great e-trip with Keith Richards, an iPad and Google maps. Patrice Peyret 2010
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Mr. Lyons, the president of production at Focus Features, is leading an effort to raise $2 million to launch New York 's first Edible Schoolyard Academy, at P.S. 216, the Arturo Toscanini School in Gravesend, Brooklyn.
Sowing and Reaping Melanie Grayce west 2010
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“Len: a very commonly used word in Gravesend to describe someone that is very stoned.”
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A group of 55 Virginia Indians visited the resting place of Pocahontas in Gravesend, England, on Friday as part of the 18-month-long Jamestown 2007 celebration.
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Ebbsfleet United, which was formerly known as Gravesend and Northfleet, was also picked by members of the website as the club to buy when the scheme was set up in 2007. www.
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On the north side of the narrow strip of land that made up Coney Island, which was not a true island but a protruding spit about five miles long and half a mile wide, lay a body of water called Gravesend Bay.
Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994
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"We do not hear that the Dutch are come to Gravesend, which is a wonder." —
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