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  • "No shoving there now!" shouted the Deputy Sub-Bursar in a fury.†  (source)
  • The forms of the community emerged from the gust-blown vestments, the dean of studies, the portly florid bursar with his cap of grey hair, the president, the little priest with feathery hair who wrote devout verses, the squat peasant form of the professor of economics, the tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like a giraffe cropping high leafage among a herd of antelopes, the grave troubled prefect of the sodality, the plump round-headed professor of Italian with his rogue's eyes.†  (source)
  • He seldom rallied the poor students of Montaigu on the ~cappettes~ from which they derived their name, or the bursars of the college of Dormans on their shaved tonsure, and their surtout parti-colored of bluish-green, blue, and violet cloth, ~azurini coloris et bruni~, as says the charter of the Cardinal des Quatre-Couronnes.†  (source)
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  • The bursar was an elderly, irritable man who became more irritable when he discovered he had to give money to me rather than the other way around.†  (source)
  • "Ford!" said the Deputy Sub-Bursar, below his breath.†  (source)
  • "I say, Mr. Savage," said the Deputy Sub-Bursar, smiling propitiatingly.†  (source)
  • At six, when their working day was over, the two Groups assembled in the vestibule of the Hospital and were served by the Deputy Sub-Bursar with their soma ration.†  (source)
  • "Now," said the Deputy Sub-Bursar.†  (source)
  • The Deputy Sub-Bursar heard no more; he had slipped out of the vestibule and was looking up a number in the telephone book.†  (source)
  • They sent me to the bursar's office to get some petty cash.†
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