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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A village of south-central England southeast of Reading. Its famed Royal Military College (now Academy) was founded in the 1790s.
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Examples
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Sandhurst is big on moral courage and that means visibly taking your punishment when you fuck up.
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Then there are the particular trees; a dark sturdy Irish yew in Sandhurst, a tall cypress near Lamberhurst, a chestnut like a puff-ball in the middle of Pembury green; two poplars near Hildenborough, whose outline exactly echoes that of the twin oasts in front of them; a magnificent cedar in Sevenoaks and, at a cross-roads at Eden Park, a huge and ancient elm which was cut down after about my twentieth journey but whose ghost I never fail to see.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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The 23-year-old royal, who is second in line to the British throne has been accepted at Sandhurst, which is an elite military academy.
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The prince has passed the entrance exam for the elite military academy Sandhurst, which is the equivalent of our West Point.
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But he -- right after he left Sandhurst, which is the English equivalent of West Point, he went to India.
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life 2003
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COOPER: Yes, well, I imagine, though, it doesn't go down big at Sandhurst, which is a ...
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KEEGAN: Well, for years, I taught at Sandhurst, which is Britain's West Point, which has the most wonderful library.
A History of Warfare 1994
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He readily assented, and the trip to Ballarat was speedily arranged, and also one to Sandhurst, which is the present name of Bendigo of gold-mining days.
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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In Kabul the idea - dubbed "Sandhurst in the sand" - has already won the approval of American and British commanders with Isaf, the international security and assistance force.
The Guardian World News Nick Hopkins 2011
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He did his military training at Sandhurst, which is the British version of
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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