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  • From the day on which I presented my billet to my landlord in Cambray, I was much struck with his manly bearing and open conduct.

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

  • Partly by further emigrations from Persia, and partly by spreading from their centre at Sanjan, they gradually settled in various other localities such as Cambray, Ankleshwar,

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

  • Cambric was a kind of fine white linen, originally made at Cambray in Flanders, though the name was occasionally also applied to an imitation made of hard-spun cotton.

    Mrs. Hume 2009

  • Michael Engel, curator of entomology at the University of Kansas, said: What we found indicates that India was not completely isolated, even though the Cambray deposit dates from a time that precedes the slamming of India into Asia.

    Prehistoric creatures discovered in huge Indian amber haul Ian Sample 2010

  • Cambric was a kind of fine white linen, originally made at Cambray in Flanders, though the name was occasionally also applied to an imitation made of hard-spun cotton.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • After his failure with two French managers, he hired a mulatto as head overseer of the plantation, a man named Prosper Cambray, and then found more time to read, to hunt, and travel to Le Cap. There he had met Violette Boisier, the most sought-after cocotte of the city, a free young woman with the reputation of being clean and healthy, African by heritage and white in appearance.

    'Island Beneath the Sea' 2010

  • It follows the unfortunate adventures of the Cambray children, whose best religious interests--and, therefore, best marital interests--are balked by the interference of the resolutely anti-Catholic Mr. Cambray.

    Religion 2009

  • Innocence of these Kind of Writings; but since the Archbishop of Cambray and Mr. Dryden have done it in Fact, I think I need say no more, but refer my Reader to those great Authors, whose Writings have pleas'd all the

    Exilius 2008

  • Church; against the archbishop of Cambray on pure and disinterested love.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Presbyterian, had finally become a Fénelonist at Cambray, under the illustrious author of “Telemachus.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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