Word: marlberough
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...boll-boys was lecturing. He was lecturing well, in fact he was lecturing brilliantly. Bent over the desks were hundreds of unfortunates absorbing learning willynilly, their flying fingers striving in vain to keep pace with the gush of dates and of treaties that flowed forth with immense speed. Through Marlberough's campaigns sped Mr. Perkins with flying jaw, through the contemporary Continental complications, through the peace settlements, through the founding of the Whigs and of the Tories, until at last the cornerstone on which the edifice hung was about to be placed...
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