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  • Retired university professor Marilyn Assheton-Smith is once again carrying the NDP banner.

    Archive 2008-02-01 uncorrectedproofs 2008

  • Retired university professor Marilyn Assheton-Smith is once again carrying the NDP banner.

    Alberta Election 2008: NDP Races to Watch uncorrectedproofs 2008

  • The ultimatum was effectual; and due satisfaction was forthcoming in time; but I was relieved when I learnt later on that they had been entrusted to Professor Assheton for the necessary microscopic examination.

    The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

  • For in his warm-hearted way, seeing that Morris was, as he had said, to tell his mother today about his happy and thoroughly suitable love affair, Mr. Taynton proposed to give a little _partie carrée_ on the earliest possible evening, at which the two young lovers, Mr.. Assheton, and himself would form the table.

    The Blotting Book 1903

  • "I wish to heaven you hadn't found it necessary to let young Assheton know that his £30,000 had increased to £40,000," he said.

    The Blotting Book 1903

  • As usual, they played backgammon together, and it was not till Mr.. Assheton rose to go to bed that she remembered Mr. Taynton's note, asking her and Morris to dine with him on their earliest unoccupied day.

    The Blotting Book 1903

  • Why, if I was to ask young Assheton to look into his affairs for himself, he would instantly think there was something wrong, and that I was trying bluff.

    The Blotting Book 1903

  • Assheton was leading an idle, extravagant, and dissipated life.

    The Blotting Book 1903

  • Doyle looked at us blankly, saw we were nearly dead with laughing, and then took Assheton aside, and said in his beautiful brogue --

    "Chinkie's Flat" 1904 Louis Becke 1884

  • Grainger and Mallard wore the usual white duck suits (the most suitable and favoured dress for a climate like that of torrid North Queensland), and Sheila could not but admire their big well-set-up figures -- both were "six feet men" -- and contrast their handsome, bronzed and bearded faces with the insignificant appearance of Assheton and another gentleman in evening dress -- a delicate but exceedingly gentlemanly young Scotsman.

    "Chinkie's Flat" 1904 Louis Becke 1884

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