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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
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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
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There are playing-fields and baths and reading-rooms and libraries just as in a school at home.
Prester John 2005
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The little boys trooped after him across the playing-fields.
The Waves 2003
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What is that congregation of buildings there, with a semi-monastic look, with chapels and halls and green playing-fields?
Three Guineas 2003
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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
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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
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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
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See the beautiful hospitals, playing-fields or schools!
Them and Us 2002
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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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