10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOWNBOY»
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Immediately upon starting the ball sought the Gownboy goal, through which it
went owing to a mistake of the back. 1 — 0. On restarting, the ball was as
instantaneously run down to the Girdlestoneite soal, and, from a corner-kick
placed ...
4) — with Sir Giles Scott's great new chapel to the south, the hall designed by Sir
Arthur Blomfield (1884) to the north, and Verites' and Gownboy's back premises
screened by the new (1930) classrooms designed by Mr. Douglas Stewart on the
...
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Charterhouse: old and new
As each donor proceeded to the rostrum with his "korban" or little gift, he was
received with loud clapping of hands by the whole Gownboy community standing
round. In proportion to the popularity of the giver the applause grew louder and ...
Edward Parry Eardley-Wilmot, E. C. Streatfield, 1895
... but as a little mystery is necessary in the craft of authorship, if closely
catechized whether Moubray is a monitor, or Iverly in the sixth, or Buchanan a
gownboy, you will discreetly evade the questions as may best conduce to the
success of our ...
... useful to him. The circumstances of the quarrel were these:—Biggs, the
gownboy (a man who, in those days, I thought was at least seven feet high, and
was quite thunderstruck to find in after life 208 Chapter I - The Fight at Slaughter
House.
William Makepeace Thackeray, 2010
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity ...
Dick Steele, the Charterhouse gownboy, contracted such an admiration in the
years of his childhood, and retained it faithfully through his life. Through the
school and through the world, whithersoever his strange fortune led this erring,
wayward ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, James Hannay, Edgar F. Harden, 2007
Mr. Lambert whistledhis favourite tuneof "Over the hills and far away," with a drum
accompaniment performed by his fingers on the window. "I say, you mustn't
whistle on Sunday, papa!" cries the artless young gownboy from Grey Friars; and
...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 2007
Dick Steele, the Charterhouse gownboy, contracted such an admiration in the
years of his childhood, and retained it faithfully through his life. Through the
school and through the world, whithersoever his strange fortune led this erring,
wayward ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 2009
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The Newcomes: Memoirs of A Most Respectable Family
How Clive will delight in them! The boy's talent for drawing is wonderful, sir,
wonderful. He sent me a picture of our old school – the very actual thing, sir; the
cloisters, the school, the head gownboy going in with the rods, and the Doctor
himself.
William Makepeace Thackeray, 2008
