Word: london
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...case and expelled me from the college. I left, never to return again alive." He paused, and I tried to regain my self-possession. But he kept on without waiting for me to join in the conversation. "How often have I been summoned before the President for wearing London styles, fined for having on my back what the Overseers called ruffian-like and new-fangled fashions! How I used to spend my income in paying for the prayers I cut! Beware of absence from the house of prayer! Have you been often absent?" he inquired in a paternal...
...Professor Carson has accepted an invitation to read a paper on Shakspere's Versification before the "New Shakspere Society" of London, on the second Friday in June...
...London, instead of Springfield, is spoken of as the place for the next regatta...
...CANADA.Perram (captain), of Toronto; Geddes and Lampier, of London; Eardley-Wilmot, Jarvis, Robertson, and Lewby, of Ottawa; Taylor, Scriver, and Abbott, of McGill College; Gough and Molsom, of Montreal; Irwin and Blaiklock, of the Britannia Club...
...absorbing interest which our recitations so generally possess, I happened to be looking at our elegant friend Augustus just as our instructor called upon Smudge. Now Smudge is not an elegant man. His clothes were certainly not made by Poole, and I don't think his hat ever saw London, or, if it did, it has certainly been on this side of the water long enough to make good a claim for naturalization; but though his clothes are far from new, they are very neat, and he evidently bestows quite as much water on the outside of his body...