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The young seminarists who acted as secretaries began turning everything over; and the superintendent of the piscinas who sat in their midst himself had to get up to see if these documents were in the "canterbury."

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  1. A stand with divisions, for holding music, portfolios, loose papers, etc., usually made somewhat ornamental as a piece of furniture, and mounted on casters.

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  • About the Author: if you donot have a home bar area, a den or family room is just fine. being chased by professor moriarty, he took a train heading from london to dover through canterbury. usually, the amount of standard deposit bonus is deposited only when you start playing and meet certain other prerequisites. they invest in quality content and the difference is obvious from the start. texas holdem strategy —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • "You used to have the handsomest canterbury-bells anywhere round," said Jim. —  Country Neighbors
  • The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients Doctor Bonamy at once hastened forward to greet Doctor Chassaigne, who was one of the latest and most glorious conquests of the Grotto. —  The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
  • The young seminarists who acted as secretaries began turning everything over; and the superintendent of the piscinas who sat in their midst himself had to get up to see if these documents were in the "canterbury." —  The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
  • Marketing Managers canterbury christ church university. working with the lead marketing manager you will i …. —  Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
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  1. from Canterbury (a city of England), in Anglo-Saxon Cantwaraburh, genitive and dative -byrig, from Cantwara, genitive plural of Cantware, people of Kent (from Cant, Cent, Kent, + ware, plural, inhabitants, related to wer, a man: see wer), + burh, city: see borough, bury.
 

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