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  • Carrie F. Butler Thwing: An appreciation by friends, together with extracts from her "Journal of a tour in Europe." by Anonymous

    Bob Fenn: An Appreciation 2009

  • There was a party of very serious-minded American tourists, with an accent reverberant enough to have cracked the windows of the carriage had they not, luckily, been open; and from the talk of these good people he learnt that they came from a place called New Jerusalem, that they intended to do London in two days, and that they answered to the names of Mr Thwing, Mr Moment, and Mr and Mrs Skull.

    Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

  • Midshipmen Monteath, Graham, Williamson, Platt, Thwing, and Acting-Midshipman Baldwin all behaved well, and gave evidence of their making valuable officers.

    The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat

  • Rev. C.F. Thwing, D.D., unable to be present as announced, forwarded his address for the use of the Secretaries of the Association.

    The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 Various

  • We turn aside to look at the rudely carved Norman tympanum over the church door at Wold Newton, and then go up to Thwing, on the rising ground to the south, where we may see what Mr. Joseph Morris claims to be the only other Norman tympanum in the East Riding.

    Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

  • President Thwing is well-known as one of the outstanding authorities on education on the American Continent.

    The Enduring Greatness of Newer Nations 1919

  • Thomas Thwing (Oct. 23), William Howard, Viscount Stafford (Dec. 29); in 1681, Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh (July 1).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Sir Thomas Gasciogne at Dolebank, Thwing became their chaplain, three of his sisters being of the community.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Gasciogne, Thwing, and others were removed to London for trial at Newgate.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • There, in 1597, he signed a petition to Father Garnet in favour of having a Jesuit superior, but, on 8 Nov., 1598, he and his fellow martyr, Venerable Edward Thwing, with others, besought the pope to institute an archpriest.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

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