Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco Laus rode with Mr. Harrington into Lost Valley and showed him, among other sites, a spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over 100, guided to ancient water holes, painted rocks, caves, sacred stones, magic springs...
...returned to his native Lincolnshire, life having apparently robbed him of the purpose toward which his 30 years of youth had devoutly and painstakingly moved. These years of preparation had culminated in the degrees of M. A., B. Chir., M. D. and in marriage to the daughter of a canon. What to do at 30? It was the year...
...moments later the aristocratic huntsmen were surrounded by a troop of raggety men who vowed that they were huntsmen top. Two of their number sported their masters' cast off hunting costumes. One of them rode an old broken down mare. All of them had flagrantly violated the first canon of fox-hunting good form by equipping themselves with rifles! To a true British aristocrat any other method of killing a fox than allowing the dogs to tear all of it but the "brush" to tatters smacks of sacrilege. One of the ladies of the Union Hunt Club loudly declared that...
...Frederick George Scott, Canon of Quebec Cathedral and Rector of St. Matthews Church, Quebec, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Frederick George Scott, Canon of Quebec Cathedral and Rector of St. Matthews Church, Quebec, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...