Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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In the same building with the school are rooms for the old pensioners ("cods," from "codger," the boys called them), whose number, about eighty, the old bell rings out every night just as Big Tom at Oxford gives the number of students in Christ College. There is something very pleasant...
*The costume of the boys was a blue tunic, yellow vest, black belt, long yellow stockings, and no hat.
Of good old Thomas Sutton,
Gray Friars, however, is very small in comparison with Christ's, there being but fifty scholars on the foundation, yet the proportion of celebrated men is very large, - Addison, "loose Dick Steele," Thurlwall, Grote, Sir John Leech, and Thackeray standing high in the list of graduates. The last-named, Thackeray...
Lighting up with beams of glory