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... let me explain. Why John Brown should have been a person particularly distasteful to the fellows of —— College, was a matter at first sight rather hard to understand. He was not what is called a rowing man; was never found drunk in the quad, or asleep at the hall lecture; never sported a pink, or drove a team; was not known to have been concerned in any of the remarkable larks which occurred in our times; was neither an agent in the Plague of Frogs, nor an actor in the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
 
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... this special occasion when Bok was introduced to him in his chambers in Tom Quad, Mr. Dodgson did not "want to be" delightful. There was no doubt that back of the studied reserve was a kindly, charming, gracious gentleman, but Bok's profession had been mentioned and the author was on ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok
 
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... antimacassars on the chairs, the silver biscuit-box and the thin-stemmed wine-glass moderated academic toils. Gilt-backed books on gilded shelf or table caught the eye, and as you turned your glance from the luxurious interiors to the well-shorn lawn in the Quad., with its classic fountain also gilded by sunbeams, the mental vision saw plainly written over the whole "The ...
— Enemies of Books • William Blades
 
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... university building at Padua is surrounded by beautiful arcades, the walls and ceilings of which are everywhere covered with the stemmata, or shields, of former students, many of them brilliantly painted. Standing in the arcade on the side of the "quad" opposite the entrance, if one looks on the ceiling immediately above the capital of the second column to the left there is seen the stemma which appears as tailpiece to this chapter, put up by a young Englishman, William Harvey, who had been a student at Padua for four years. He belonged ...
— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler
 
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... the peaceful river, The cricket-field, the quad, The shaven lawns of Oxford, To seek a bloody sod— They gave their merry youth away ...
— A Treasury of War Poetry - British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 • Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Herbert Clarke
 
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... genius, alike in the classical style at the Sheldonian and in "Gothic" as in Tom Tower, the Classical work of Hawkesmore at Queen's and of Gibbs in the Radcliffe, the wonderful beauty of Mr. Bodley's modern Gothic in St. Swithun's Quad at Magdalen, and the skilful adaptation of old English tradition to modern needs by Sir Thomas Jackson at Trinity and at Hertford—what other city can show such a series of architectural beauties? And it must not be forgotten that Oxford disputes with York the honour ...
— The Charm of Oxford • J. Wells
 
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... Canadian troops that had | | served him in South Africa." | | Page 79: gacious replaced with gracious | | Page 81: Sergeat-Major replaced with Sergeant-Major | | Page 91: "feed him till he almost fainted" replaced with | | "fed him till he almost fainted" | | Page 94: quad leaders replaced with squad leaders | | Page 115: seventeeth replaced with seventeenth | | Page 137: trenchs replaced with trenches | | Page 183: offiers replaced with officers | | Page 183: and and replaced with and | | Page 184: Caestre replaced with Caestre (2 times) | | Page 245: Zoonebec ...
— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie
 
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... digits; a {quad}. Larger than a {bit}, smaller than a {nybble}. Considered silly. Syn. {tayste}. General discussion of ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
 
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... dixerim, quae Fraternae Compassionis relate the Death of the Lady | affectu in feruore prode[u]t Frances Roberts without shedding | charitatis, pro qua eti[a] ad some Teares of Compassion, of | horam tui ipsius immemor esse, Deuotion, yea and of Compunction | sobria quad[a] ebrietate videris. too[m]? Shee deserues some Teares | S. Bern. in Epiph. Dom. Serm. 3.] from vs (Beloued) as well as from | the Poore, weeping now and shewing | [Note: Bountie to the Poore.] the Coats and garments which this | Dorcas made for them, while she | [Note n: Act. 9. 36.] ...
— The Praise of a Godly Woman • Hannibal Gamon
 
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... how it happened, is it? Look at them go!" for going they were, in spiral eddies or fluttering skips, up the grassy "quad," and over among the rose-bushes of Alice Renwick's garden. Over on the other side of the narrow, old-fashioned frontier fort the men were bustling about, and their exultant, eager voices rang out on the morning air. All was life and animation, ...
— From the Ranks • Charles King
 
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... in quad, sir," he said. "The young gentlemen 'as a bonfire on, and they're a larking with the snow. Orful ...
— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang
 
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... have to do Yet love must needs come breaking through, And now and then the office hum Dies like a mist, ... and there will come An Oxford breakfast scene: the quad All blue and grey outside—O God— And there sits Twiston at the feast Proclaiming he will be a priest! I see his eyes, his homely neb— Ring, telephones, and cut ...
— Songs for a Little House • Christopher Morley
 
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