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… Sir John Pickering, and Sir Bernard Brocas, who lost his head in the cause of Richard II., and Colonel Popham, and … the four Evangelists, and in front, in a medallion, is a head of the Saviour crowned with thorns. An inscription sets … of the lines quoted above, that the present is the third head placed on the figure of General Washington, and that …
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… the sanctuary at Westminster becoming the home and head-quarters of all that was low and disreputable, and … this house as of brick, with the sign of the "King's Head;" it was pulled down in November, 1845, before the …
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… his son at the table as server, bringing up the boar's head, with trumpets before it. Whereupon that young man, … him on the shoulder, bidding him "be silent:" the gold head fell heavily from the walking-stick to the ground; and … was held before him during the whole trial) over his head, and then the Court broke up." Here, on the 15th of …
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… The foundation, then, as she left it, consists of a head master, a second master or "usher," and forty "Queen's … this order is retained the whole four years, so that the head of each "election" is the "captain" of his year. Great … of law in favour of their respective clients before the head-master, who presides as judge. The boy who is finally …
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… but we may well imagine that even the learned doctor's head was a little turned by the unexpected and flattering … all messages in the Riding House, it being in a manner head-quarters. When he was told that part of the mob was … in a "common stage wagon," when the semi-circular head, the most beautiful portion of the design, was …
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… a Marquisate by William IV. in 1831, in favour of the then head of the Grosvenor family, whose property, within the …
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… Mr. John Timbs, stood a little to the north of Blue Boar's Head Yard, on the west side of the street. If we may accept … himself by trade before his accession to the baronetcy as head of the family. Dudley, the second Lord North, had a … Among these coffee-houses and hostelries was the "King's Head" Inn, where there was held an "ordinary," as far back as …
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… statistician, shows that the "Quartier de la Cit"now the head-quarters of the thieves of Pariswas formerly the site of … "represents a bearded bust in profile, with a bare head." James I., with all his learning and pedantry, was, …
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… enclosure takes somewhat the shape of a boy's kite, the head or broad part of which, towards Whitehall, is bordered …
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… Edward III., a man was taken "practising with a dead man's head, and brought to the bar at the King's Bench, where, … Street; the "Maidenhead," or, more properly, the "Maiden's Head"in other words, that of "Our Lady;" the "St. George and …