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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… English universities were 'simply "boarding schools" for bigger boys', doing hardly anything to promote literary or …
Survey of London
… employed on the new building, was purchased to provide a bigger site. h The trustees resolved that 'the Designe of the … two houses in Church Court in order to provide a slightly bigger site. 92 The design of the Town Hall (as the new …
Survey of London
… gates, fitted as reverse-sweep. 375 Steamships became ever bigger and the lock soon proved to have been insufficiently …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… of chalk,) said, by good judges, to be both higher and bigger than that famous one at Marleburgh, and if so, it is …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… like a TOOTHPICK CASE or NEEDLE CASE or something on a bigger scale like a CANDLESTICK. Toys were made of many …
A History of the County of Chester
… the humbler structures, the appearance and layout of the bigger domestic buildings may be reconstructed. Pares or … subchambers, a kitchen, gatehouse, and hall. 3 The bigger houses occupied plots with wide street frontages and …
A History of the County of Chester
… as small businesses were squeezed out by the expansion of bigger and more successful shops. Elsewhere the situation was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to move to Reynardson's almshouses rather than to receive bigger pensions, the sale of Phesaunt's alms-houses was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… one was a walnut tree, which flourished without growing bigger and was popularly associated with the burning of an …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the plan of the ground story, the middle room only being bigger by the addition of the recessed window over the porch …