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_ So Wm. Browne calls Sir Walter Raleigh, who was for a time in disgrace with Queen Elizabeth, whom he calls "Cyn´thia."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Then there is the chaplain who writes erotica, the strange world of London Underground's Lost Property Office, and the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh who has a bad tobacco habit and keeps stealing potatoes.
Julia Stuart: How a Beefeater and a Tortoise Captured America's Attention Julia Stuart 2010
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English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
Rudy Campaign Team Deals With Its First Serious Negative Press 2009
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In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh received a patent from Elizabeth I to finance and settle a colony in the New World.
A Vibrant Glimpse 2008
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We'd go to the Sir Walter Raleigh and pick up the black guys and they picked us up at the other hotel.
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Devon, but to North; not to Sir Walter Raleigh, but to Sir Amyas
Westward Ho! 2007
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Whereas Elizabeth I looked at the early years of her reign, director Shekhar Kapur explores the relationship between the Queen and the adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh this time round in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
August 24th, 2007 curufea 2007
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Plus being from North Carolina, Sir Walter Raleigh has always been a major historical figure here.
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The trial of Sir Walter Raleigh lasted from eight in the morning until nearly midnight; he defended himself with such eloquence, genius, and spirit against all accusations, and against the insults of COKE, the Attorney-General — who, according to the custom of the time, foully abused him — that those who went there detesting the prisoner, came away admiring him, and declaring that anything so wonderful and so captivating was never heard.
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This plot got rid of, and Sir Walter Raleigh safely shut up in the
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