Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1887 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... head of the life - guards , attacked and slew , in the race - course , 30,000 of the green or anti - loyalist Party , and thus restored tranquillity . Previous to this , he had married a wealthy but pro- fligate lady , Antonina , whom ...
... head of the life - guards , attacked and slew , in the race - course , 30,000 of the green or anti - loyalist Party , and thus restored tranquillity . Previous to this , he had married a wealthy but pro- fligate lady , Antonina , whom ...
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... head . ' It is prefixed to the name of a great many mountains in Scotland - as Ben Nevis , Ben Macdhui , Ben Cruachan , & c . The corre- sponding term in various parts of Europe is Pen , which is found in many of the names in Cornwall ...
... head . ' It is prefixed to the name of a great many mountains in Scotland - as Ben Nevis , Ben Macdhui , Ben Cruachan , & c . The corre- sponding term in various parts of Europe is Pen , which is found in many of the names in Cornwall ...
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... head , and a leading speaker in the debates . His speeches in the session of 1845-1846 were most damaging to the government of Sir Robert Peel , and contributed in no small degree to hasten its downfall in July of the latter year . Lord ...
... head , and a leading speaker in the debates . His speeches in the session of 1845-1846 were most damaging to the government of Sir Robert Peel , and contributed in no small degree to hasten its downfall in July of the latter year . Lord ...
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... head , is treated rather as a god than as a sovereign ; while the Deb Rajah , the actual head , is controlled in almost everything by a council of eight , Polyandry and polygamy conspire to keep down the population . " BHOWAN . See ...
... head , is treated rather as a god than as a sovereign ; while the Deb Rajah , the actual head , is controlled in almost everything by a council of eight , Polyandry and polygamy conspire to keep down the population . " BHOWAN . See ...
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... heads- whence its name - one being attached to the cora- coid process of the scapula , the other to the margin of the depression on that bone which lodges the head of the humerus , The former is the short , the latter , the long head of ...
... heads- whence its name - one being attached to the cora- coid process of the scapula , the other to the margin of the depression on that bone which lodges the head of the humerus , The former is the short , the latter , the long head of ...
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