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Canterbury

a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church

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A film-to Canterbury.
You'll observe from your Bradshaw that this train stops at Canterbury and again at the boat.
We shall get ours at Canterbury.
Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?
What about the Canterbury-Whitstable line? They closed that.
Perhaps there were not men of sufficient faith. in Canterbury.
Keg of brandy for Maidstone. ditto Canterbury.
If you don't crush them now, in five years' time there will be two Kings of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury and you, in ten years' time there will be only one.
He's just recalled the Archbishop of Canterbury to his bosom.
We need a new Archbishop of Canterbury,.
But if the Archbishop is my man, if Canterbury is for the King, how could his power possibly get in my way?
My Lord, we know your bishops, once enthroned at Canterbury, everyone of them will grow dizzy with power.
Archbishop of Canterbury.
Well, welcome to Canterbury, My Lord Bishop, is anything wrong?
There isn't a finer school in Canterbury than Dr. Strong's.
Mr. Micawber, how wonderful to see you in Canterbury. Thank you.
I have reasoned with the queen as best I could. I've enlisted the help of Canterbury and the duke, your uncle.
Ditto, Canterbury.
The answer of our liege, Lord Henry to his trusty well-beloved subjects pontiffs in the Canterbury Convocation.
You take the path to Canterbury.
To shorten the way, each of you will tell a tale on the road to Canterbury.
I shall be the judge, and your guide. I'll accompany you at my own expense, until you reach Canterbury.
Notes for a Book of Tales of the Pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.
Here finish the Canterbury Tales, told for the sole pleasure of telling.
Dr. Canterbury, you look spright.
I'd like to see Dr. Canterbury.
Dr. Canterbury ordered me to put you and your wife in this room.
Besides attending the conference he has found time to meet political and religious leaders like Mr. Lloyd George the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Bernard Shaw and Charlie Chaplin.
The young sovereign is presented to the archbishop of Canterbury who asks her the ritual questions.
Berwick Street, Canterbury, twelve miles from the airfield at Manston on the Kent coast.
The monks of Canterbury Cathedral had completed their evening prayers and were about to retire for the night.
Gervase of Canterbury was a historian considered today a reliable reporter of political and cultural events of his time.
It may be that 200 years before Chaucer five monks saw an event more wonderful than many another celebrated Canterbury tale.
So there may be physical evidence in the age of space flight for the account of the Canterbury monks in the 12th century.
The Canterbury monks faithfully recorded an impact on the moon and the Anasazi people, an explosion of a distant star.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, My Lord.
The Archbishop of Canterbury?
Edmund, the Archbishop of Canterbury has met with a most tragic accident.
They go to Canterbury.
I appoint to the Holy See of Canterbury my own son Edwin, Duke of Edinburgh!
To C-Canterbury.

News and current affairs

Like the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett in his Canterbury Cathedral many centuries ago, the crime was committed in the clear belief that it would please the king.
Last year, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, asked Secretary of State Colin Powell why the United States seemed to focus only on its hard power rather than its soft power.
NEW YORK - In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, as a silently ordered hit.
This is what Benedict does, as does his interlocutor in Britain, the head of the Anglican Communion, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.

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