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Examples
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Even Mrs. Freddy, looking up, was conscious of something in Stonor's face that made her say –
The Convert 1907
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It was ornamented with a curved prow and stern, such as Stonor had not before seen.
The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Hulbert Footner 1911
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However ludicrous the result may look in the last analysis, it is clear that a faculty such as Stonor's for overrating the value of the individual in the scheme of things, does seem more effectually than any mere patent of nobility to confer upon a man the 'divine right' to dictate to his fellows and to look down upon them.
The Convert 1907
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'Stonor's too content just to criticize, just to make his delicate pungent fun of the men who are grappling – very inadequately of course
The Convert 1907
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'Stonor's too content just to criticize, just to make his delicate pungent fun of the men who are grappling -- very inadequately of course -- still _grappling_ with the big questions.
The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907
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However ludicrous the result may look in the last analysis, it is clear that a faculty such as Stonor's for overrating the value of the individual in the scheme of things, does seem more effectually than any mere patent of nobility to confer upon a man the 'divine right' to dictate to his fellows and to look down upon them.
The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907
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Frances Stonor Saunders 'book, The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, mentions the MD Andersen Foundation in Houston, the cornerstone of the Medical Center, and how it was used to funnel government black budget money for years.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Obama Needs to Lead the Way on Regulating Foundations 2009
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[1] We see just the same formulas in the fifteenth century letters of the Stonor family (Stonor Letters and Papers, Camden Society), though in these letters we seem often to find a lighter and more playful touch than was common among the Pastons.
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So Dame Elizabeth Stonor ends a letter to her husband: 'Written at Stonor, when I would fain have slept, the morrow after our Lady day in the morning,' -- _Ibid_., p. 77. 72.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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He is a little incoherent with joy and gratitude, full of regrets that business keeps him from Stonor and good wishes for the health of the family.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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