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Grimsby

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Grimsby: see Great Grimsby Great Grimsby or Grimsby, city (1991 pop. 139,877), North East Lincolnshire, E central England, at the mouth of the Humber River. It is one of the largest fishing ports in the world.
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Grimsby
a port in E England, in North East Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire, formerly important for fishing. Pop.: 87 574 (2001)


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Clements, and she had determined on removing to one of the most out-of-the-way places in England--to the town of Grimsby in Lincolnshire, where her deceased husband had passed all his early life.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Grimsby, a friend of his, but a man I very greatly disliked: there was a sinister cast in his countenance, and a mixture of lurking ferocity and fulsome insincerity in his demeanour, that I could not away with.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
Poole two hundred a year to live here with MY WIFE, as you term that fearful hag: Grace will do much for money, and she shall have her son, the keeper at Grimsby Retreat, to bear her company and be at hand to give her aid in the paroxysms, when MY WIFE is prompted by her familiar to burn people in their beds at night, to stab them, to bite their flesh from their bones, and so on--"
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