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Barrington| Town in northeastern Illinois, 52 km/32 mi northwest of Chicago, on Bakers Lake; population (1990) 9,500. Primarily a residential suburb, it has plants processing coffee and tea and producing tableware. |
Barrington| Town in eastern Rhode Island, on the northeastern shore of Narragansett Bay, adjoining East Providence; population (1990) 15,800. It occupies two peninsulas separated by the estuarial Barrington River. It is a suburb and resort with some light industry. |
| It was settled in the 1670s by colonists who left Rehoboth, Massachusetts, because of religious differences, and became part of Rhode Island in 1746. |
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| It was whilst his thoughts traveled in this fashion that the electric landaulette of Lady Ruth Barrington glided round the corner from St. then it follows that in doing what is unworthy to be done, or what has been done before, no genius can be evinced; yet the picking of pockets is an unw orthy act, pockets have been picked time immemorial, and Barrington, the pickpocket, in point of genius, would have thought hard of a comparison with William Wordsworth, the poet. This lizard, instead of being found like the other on all the islands, is confined to the central part of the archipelago, namely to Albemarle, James, Barrington, and Indefatigable islands. |