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Examples
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Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and Coffee-Houses (Addison I. 44).
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And so to find myself asked to speak at the Empire and Canadian Clubs is quite an honour.
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Canada, let me tell The Empire and Canadian Clubs, is a wonderful country.
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These founders laid admirable traditions in the old days, and the success and influence of the Clubs is in great part attributable to those traditions and the wise guidance the Clubs have received ever since.
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I have always thought that one of the best features of the Canadian and Empire Clubs, is that it enables you to come, in personal contact with those differences that occasionally divide men in domestic politics-and after all they are only differences of opinion -- and this is the best way of maintaining the interests, which we all hold in common.
Imperialism 1911
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Remember the reason we see so many GOP Law Makers snicking into Gay Clubs/Sex Clubs is because it’s their second time around for Free Love.
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The members of our Clubs are anxious to be kept informed on world events which affect our country or the Commonwealth and, therefore, are delighted to hear the person who can speak with the greatest authority about such events.
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Children may be referred to the Clubs by schools, counselors, or other agencies as a means to gain a positive experience socially, educationally, physically, and emotionally under guidance of caring adults.
unknown title 2011
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These are both top calls Clubs, and winning is their game.
BBC - Ouch BBC Sport 2010
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Those who frequent the dismal and enormous Mansions of Silence which society has raised to Ennui in that Omphalos of town, Pall Mall, and which, because they knock you down with their dulness, are called Clubs no doubt; those who yawn from a bay-window in St. James's St.eet, at a half-score of other dandies gaping from another bay-window over the way; those who consult a dreary evening paper for news, or satisfy themselves with the jokes of the miserable Punch by way of wit; the men about town of the present day, in a word, can have but little idea of London some six or eight score years back.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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