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SUSSEX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)
Holonyms ("Sussex" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
"Have you been lately in Sussex?" said Elinor.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Good horses for the Sussex clay.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After that he travelled for some years, and finally he bought a small place called Woodman’s Lee, near Forest Row, in Sussex.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You'll find their footmarks all over the Hastings sands, in Kent, and in Sussex.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘I don’t think that we should have much difficulty in determining that,’ said I; ‘with your permission we will take the first train down to Sussex, and go a little more deeply into the matter upon the spot.’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
De Borhunte was up in the east, and Sir John de Montague in the west. Sir Luke de Ponynges, Sir Thomas West, Sir Maurice de Bruin, Sir Arthur Lipscombe, Sir Walter Ramsey, and stout Sir Oliver Buttesthorn were all marching south with levies from Andover, Arlesford, Odiham and Winchester, while from Sussex came Sir John Clinton, Sir Thomas Cheyne, and Sir John Fallislee, with a troop of picked men-at-arms, making for their port at Southampton.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
My dear Mary, it ran, I have stopped at the inn, because I am somewhat ravagé by the dust of your Sussex roads.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So long as he was in actual professional practice the records of his successes were of some practical value to him, but since he has definitely retired from London and betaken himself to study and bee-farming on the Sussex Downs, notoriety has become hateful to him, and he has peremptorily requested that his wishes in this matter should be strictly observed.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An area, as large perhaps as Sussex, has been lifted up en bloc with all its living contents, and cut off by perpendicular precipices of a hardness which defies erosion from all the rest of the continent.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
