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  • I had decided to do this as my route would take me past a splendid blackberrying patch running parrallel with Worple Road, but beyond the railway track, backing on to those school playing-fields, for those who know it.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

  • The oxygenation of council chambers, factories, playing-fields and similar loci demanding special brightness and activity, and the use of Padanath

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • There are playing-fields and baths and reading-rooms and libraries just as in a school at home.

    Prester John 2005

  • The little boys trooped after him across the playing-fields.

    The Waves 2003

  • What is that congregation of buildings there, with a semi-monastic look, with chapels and halls and green playing-fields?

    Three Guineas 2003

  • Most of the boys were very happy, and many found in its classrooms and upon its playing-fields the greatest distinction they have ever known in life.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • Most of the boys were very happy, and many found in its classrooms and upon its playing-fields the greatest distinction they have ever known in life.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • Most of the boys were very happy, and many found in its classrooms and upon its playing-fields the greatest distinction they have ever known in life.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • See the beautiful hospitals, playing-fields or schools!

    Them and Us 2002

  • The battle of Waterloo may have been won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the acceptance of the part-classroom, part-apprenticeship system at Waterloo University was won largely by the perseverance of Douglas Wright.

    Higher Education in Ontario: Who Goes? Who Benefits? Why Pays? 1970

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