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  • I don't know if any of these assertions are true, but if so, then certainly the last two make the Leightons of more than passing interest.

    Marie Connor Leighton Steve 2010

  • The Leightons had three surviving children their first child was accidentally smothered by a nurse in infancy:

    Marie Connor Leighton Steve 2010

  • The Leightons had three surviving children their first child was accidentally smothered by a nurse in infancy:

    Archive 2010-02-01 Steve 2010

  • Leightons has since won contracts to construct factories here for Flextronics and Motorola.

    Australia and India: The Strategic Outlook - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs 2008

  • - Hochtief's Australian partner, Leightons, has secured major contracts in the construction of Hong Kong's new airport.

    AUSTRALIA AND GERMANY 1996

  • The film, entitled From Bears to Bartok, tells a little of that story, much of it derived from the Leightons 'research, but its main theme is the story of some of the participants in the programs of the summer of 1982 and of some of the international faculty on campus at that time.

    The Banff Experience in Fine Arts Education 1983

  • He next sought out the Leightons, hoping to learn my residence; but they of course could give him no information upon the subject.

    The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

  • I therefore cast away all my desponding fears, and hastened the preparations for my departure to the home of the Leightons.

    The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

  • Previous to the return home of Laura and Willie, the Leightons had seen but little company for a family of their wealth and social position; but now, instead of the heretofore quiet evenings, their superb parlors were thronged with acquaintances and friends, for both Willie and Laura had been favourites with both young and old.

    The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

  • Not that I envied the Leightons -- far from it -- but I could not help sometimes contrasting my position in life with theirs.

    The Path of Duty, and Other Stories

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