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Bristol

City in Hartford County, west-central Connecticut, 25 km/16 mi southwest of Hartford on the Pequabuck River; population (1992) 64,100. Products include clocks, tools, and machinery parts.

Bristol was first settled in 1727 and incorporated as a city in 1911. Known as the clockmaking capital of the USA, the city has the American Clock and Watch Museum; Bristol has been a clockmaking centre since the 1790s. It was a hotbed of Tory activity during the Revolution; the name Tory's Den was given to a cave on Chippens Hill.
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Miss Hawkins was the youngest of the two daughters of a Bristol merchant, of course, he must be called; but, as the whole of the profits of his mercantile life appeared so very moderate, it was not unfair to guess the dignity of his line of trade had been very moderate also.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
I had many melancholy hours at the Bath after the company was gone; for though I went to Bristol sometime for the disposing my effects, and for recruits of money, yet I chose to come back to Bath for my residence, because being on good terms with the woman in whose house I lodged in the summer, I found that during the winter I lived rather cheaper there than I could do anywhere else.
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context
The tortoise--as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience--besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food; nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject.
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