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Front pews, old Dr. Kittredge and all the mansionhouse people and distinguished strangers, -- Colonel Sprowle and family, including Matilda's young gentleman, a graduate of one of the fresh-water colleges, -- Mrs. Pickins (late Widow Rowens) and husband, -- Deacon Soper and numerous parishioners.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Front pews, old Dr. Kittredge and all the mansionhouse people and distinguished strangers, -- Colonel Sprowle and family, including Matilda's young gentleman, a graduate of one of the fresh-water colleges, -- Mrs. Pickins (late Widow Rowens) and husband, -- Deacon Soper and numerous parishioners.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Whatsoever act, if committed on any mansionhouse, would be deemed a burglary, shall be burglary, if committed on any other house; and he who is guilty of burglary, shall be condemned to hard labour four years in the public works, and shall make double reparation to the persons injured.
Public Papers 1775
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"Behold now this vast city!" cried Milton from London, "a city of refuge, the mansionhouse of liberty, encompassed with God's protection!
History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 John Richard Green 1860
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