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  • I wish Mr Duncan (and Mr Obama when he is wearing his mortar-board) the very best of luck as they try to tackle the gigantic task ahead.

    Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • There were also numerous photographs of Alexander Fitzpatrick as a young child and teenager; even one when he was wearing a mortar-board and gown.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • There were also numerous photographs of Alexander Fitzpatrick as a young child and teenager; even one when he was wearing a mortar-board and gown.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • There were also numerous photographs of Alexander Fitzpatrick as a young child and teenager; even one when he was wearing a mortar-board and gown.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • In her honor, du Maurier drew a cartoon of Mr Punch tipping his mortar-board as Agnata enters a first-class railway compartment labelled Ladies Only with the text ‘Honour to Agnata Frances Ramsay’.

    Agnata Frances Ramsay 2006

  • In her honor, du Maurier drew a cartoon of Mr Punch tipping his mortar-board as Agnata enters a first-class railway compartment labelled Ladies Only with the text ‘Honour to Agnata Frances Ramsay’.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • At twenty-five minutes to six he put the book back in the window-sill, dashed a few crumbs from his jacket, assumed a mortar-board cap that was lying on the tea-caddy, and went forth to his evening “preparation duty.”

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • The hall with its insistent scholastic suggestions, its yellow marbled paper, its long rows of hat-pegs, its disreputable array of umbrellas, a broken mortar-board and a tattered and scattered Principia, seemed dim and dull in contrast with the luminous stir of the early March evening outside.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • Mr. Lewisham raised his mortar-board, and to his astonishment Mr. Bonover responded with a markedly formal salute — mock clerical hat sweeping circuitously — and the regard of a searching, disapproving eye, and so passed.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • “I say,” he said with a fearful sense of his temerity, and raising his mortar-board awkwardly as though he was passing a funeral.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

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