billington in A Sentence

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    This year John Billington the elder(one that came over with the first) was arraigned;

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    Billington has since been the only non-Frenchman on the Board of the foundation governing the castle.

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    John Billington was around 40 years old when he disembarked the Mayflower in New England in November, 1620.

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    Whatever the case, after the death Newcomen, Billington became the first convicted murderer in the New World.

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    So, in the end, Billington may have murdered Newcomen as described, or it may have been for other reasons.

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    Things didn't improve as Billington, with others, are thought to have made attempts to overthrow Puritan rule in the colony.

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    That said, it appears that John Newcomen was Billington's neighbour, and the two had gotten into arguments in the past.

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    Michael Billington of The Guardian reported that the show had improved with its transfer to the West End from the Menier Chocolate Factory.

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    One of the chief among these negative sources, the governor of the colony William Bradford, is known to have particularly disliked Billington nearly from the beginning;

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    In addition, after his death, Billington's granddaughter was whipped after being found guilty of fornication at the age of 22(admittedly, an extremely common crime in the colony).

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    Climate can feel a long way away, whereas public health is really immediate,” noted Polly Billington, director of UK100, a network of local government leaders across the United Kingdom dedicated to climate action.

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    Alex Billington felt the third film"almost makes the second film in the series obsolete or dulls it down enough that we can accept it in our trilogy DVD collections without ever watching it.

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    Many of the signers grumbled and complained about putting their names on the document and more or less putting themselves under Puritan rule, and it's thought that John Billington was probably one of them.

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    From the beginning, similarities between Benoit and Billington were apparent, as Benoit adopted many of his moves such as the diving headbutt and the snap suplex; the homage was complete with his initial billing as"Dynamite" Chris Benoit.

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    As Hubbard mentioned, most crimes were punishable by whipping or some time spent in the stocks, but the officials in charge either saw the crime as too horrible to get away with or they were tired of Billington's constant mischief.

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    Given that most of the sources of information on the man were written by Puritans who would no doubt be biased against him because he was a Catholic and because he railed against their authority over him, it's possible that Billington wasn't the notorious, wilful murderer that history paints him to be.

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