Cobham


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Cobham

(ˈkɒbəm)
n
(Biography) Lord Cobham title of Sir John Oldcastle. See Oldcastle
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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'Any letter addressed to me at the Leather Bottle, Cobham, Kent, will be forwarded--supposing I still exist.
By the time they reached the last-named place, the violence of their grief had sufficiently abated to admit of their making a very excellent early dinner; and having procured the necessary information relative to the road, the three friends set forward again in the afternoon to walk to Cobham.
I shall never forget his flying Henry's kite for him that very windy day last Easterand ever since his particular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o'clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham, I have been convinced there could not be a more feeling heart nor a better man in existence.If any body can deserve him, it must be Miss Taylor."
If I had fully realised the meaning of all the things I had seen I should have immediately worked my way round through Byfleet to Street Cobham, and so gone back to rejoin my wife at Leatherhead.
I had my eye on the road all the way from Ripley to Cobham, and there were more Dunlop marks than any other kind.
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THE FOUNDING family of British defence firm Cobham has asked the government to intervene in the PS4bn takeover of the company by US private equity giant Advent International.
(Alliance News) - Meggitt PLC is considering bidding against an American private equity firm for fellow UK defence contractor Cobham PLC, according to The Mail on Sunday.
BRITISH defence giant Cobham is set to be snapped up by a US private-equity firm in a PS4billion swoop.
BRITISH engineering and defence giant Cobham has been snapped up by a group of US investors in a deal that values to business at PS4 billion.