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They took to hiding out on the range where they would wait for Marjoribanks to come galloping by on his English saddle with his scissors-tail coat flying; then the cowboys would charge him, firing off their pistols and whooping like Indians.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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Archibald John Marjoribanks, a young relative of Baron Tweedmouth, arrived from London to set things in order.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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When young Marjoribanks ordered the punchers to address him as Sir Archibald, they rebelled.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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You think, perhaps, that we were duffers to watch for a reply when we had signed all the letters with fancy names like Daisy Dolman, Everard St Maur, and Sir Cholmondely Marjoribanks, and put fancy addresses on them, like Chatsworth House, Loampit Vale, and The Bungalow, Eaton Square.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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Aside from party considerations, no Liberal would like to "disoblige Marjoribanks," who is as popular with the Irish contingent as he is with the main body of the British members.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880
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Llanover Marjoribanks Sellers Viscount Berkeley, sailed from Liverpool for America to place the reversion of the earldom in the hands of the rightful peer, Mulberry Sellers, of Rossmore Towers in the District of
The American Claimant Mark Twain 1872
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Marjoribanks -- so that the Rector dashed in 45 as the probable age of the witness, and waited his further statement.
The Perpetual Curate 1862
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Marjoribanks was not partial to Miss Sophia Hemmings.
The Perpetual Curate 1862
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Marjoribanks; and any one whose attention was sufficiently disengaged to note the details of the scene might have perceived John, who had been fifteen years with Mr Wodehouse, and the old cook in her black gown, who was of older standing in the family than Alland herself, peeping in, whenever it was opened, through the door.
The Perpetual Curate 1862
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The American left, which they flanked, falling far short of the British right in length, they were exposed to the oblique fire of a large proportion of the British left, and particularly of the battalion commanded by Marjoribanks.
The Life of Francis Marion Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 1844
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