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Three thousand a year, delightful climate, excellent government-house, all your own way in the Colony, and a certain promotion.
Vanity Fair 2006
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At the same time, government-house was fortified and surrounded with artillery.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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He associates with persons of the highest rank, dining and attending parties at the government-house with all the aristocracy of Jamaica.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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It was usual in the early period of the Republic to provide a space near the government-house where the people could meet and take part in public affairs; and for this purpose this open gallery was built opposite the
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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In the month of August, a most inhuman murder was committed on the body of Joseph Luken, a constable, who, after going off his watch at the government-house, was beset by some villains who still remain undiscovered, and who buried the hilt of his own cutlass very deeply in his head.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) David Dickinson Mann
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The principal buildings in St. Louis are, the government-house, the theatre, the bank of the United St.tes, and three or four Catholic and
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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There were half a dozen seal-skin tents, a few houses of stone and turf, and one or two wooden buildings, besides the government-house that proudly supported the flag of Denmark.
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Roi, or former government-house, and the seventeen famous guild houses or halls of the industrial corporations (butchers, brewers, tailors, carpenters, painters, etc.).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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After partaking of a grand entertainment, he was presented by General Maitland, in the name of His Majesty, with a splendid service of plate, and put in possession of the government-house which had been built and furnished by the
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Various 1905
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Night was falling on the dark masses of the huge Prætorium, the government-house and army barracks of the provincial capital of
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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