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Word: surrey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1886-1886
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...there is any truth in the proverb that the smell of the bullock's blood is apt to beget a savagery in the slayer, the sweet voice of our Katharine may not have been without avail in mollifying the asperities of temper - if he had any - in that young Surrey butcher, Robert Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gift of the Old Cambridge to the New. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

...great metropolis should be so near. Harrow is by nature admirably suited for either recreation or study. The school buildings are located on the brow and slope of a high hill, commanding an extensive prospect on all sides. From the summit, part of six counties are visible, and the Surrey Hills, the Thames, Windsor Castle, and part of London meet the spectator's eye. Some of the buildings are very old, built in a massive style of architecture. They are filled with reminiscences, carved in wood, of many generations of youths, some of them destined to become the pride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harrow-on-the-Hill. | 1/27/1886 | See Source »

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