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She also casts, to my mind, unnecessary doubts on the authenticity of the most concrete single object relating to Shakespeare which survives, namely his monument.
January Books 5) Shakespeare's Wife, by Germaine Greer nwhyte 2009
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This fair township -- now divided among nine towns -- and all it has been and is and is to be may be justly called his monument.
The Bay State Monthly ā Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various
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The first, and still by far the best church-building at Amoy, which is also the first church building erected in China expressly for Chinese Protestant Christian worship, may be called his monument.
Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Rev. John Gerardus Fagg
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The first, and still by far the best church-building at Amoy, which is also the first church building erected in China expressly for Chinese Protestant Christian worship, may be called his monument.
Forty Years in South China Fagg, John Gerardus, 1860-1917 1894
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Highland countrymen have never thought of honouring his memory with some kind of monument.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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Iām awfully concerned about how this might affect this area, particularly as applies to Fridays After 5 and the free expression monument.
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A necropsy is a less romantic way of dealing with an elephant's death, but it does, at least, contribute to scientific knowledge of the physiology of the species, which is another kind of monument.
Torontoist 2009
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