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  • She was one of the most accomplished musicians in the camp—she'd been accepted into the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto—and she was also model-gorgeous: tall, regal, with skin the color of coffee, and cheekbones that could carve ice.†   (source)
  • My work in twenty years has taken me to Toronto, Montreal, Paris, London, Manchester, Rome, Milan, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfort, Cologne, Erlangen, Heidelberg, Stuttgart, southern Germany, Amsterdam, Groningen, Salzburg, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Chihuahua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Peru, Venezuela, Tokyo and Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina.†   (source)
  • 'Woods outside Toronto attacked by giant evil badger.†   (source)
  • Joe Urquhardt was a Canadian banker who'd been roommates with Liz's cousin in Toronto.†   (source)
  • Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.†   (source)
  • There were two tables of travel agents on a junket from Toronto—they thought Lenny was a Scottish comic who did impressions of the royal family.†   (source)
  • Sheryl's grandmother stripped off the bandages after she moved with her husband to Toronto, but it was too late.†   (source)
  • But Aunt Emily in Toronto, still single at fifty-six, is even more old-maidish than I am and yet she refuses the label.†   (source)
  • He said it was cold and snowing in Toronto.†   (source)
  • Loney lives in Toronto, where he remains active in the peace movement.†   (source)
  • And even those who have to know something-like the doctor and the two guys from Toronto-they don't know the whole story, just pieces, and they're friends.†   (source)
  • After two hours he told her that his mother lived in Toronto, that his father lived in Grenville on the other side of the island, and that he himself lived in a shack a little way along the beach.†   (source)
  • Many thanks as well to my Harper editors Lynne Missen (Canada) and Susan Rich and Patricia Ocampo (U.S.); Alexis MacDonald and Christina Magill of the Stephen Lewis Foundation; Harriet McQuire and Althea Tait of Access Africa; journalist Michele Landsberg; and the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.†   (source)
  • J. K. Chambers of the University of Toronto says that changes themselves are usually crystal-clear—for example, the trend he's studied in Canada and Northern American states to replace dived as the past-tense form by dove.†   (source)
  • On my brother's wall in Toronto are the false maps.†   (source)
  • Reuters in Toronto.†   (source)
  • A secretary told me that Larry was in Toronto, where he was attending a professional convention.†   (source)
  • In Toronto, Vancouver, California.†   (source)
  • — TORONTO MIRROR, November 23rd, 1843.†   (source)
  • He spends the night at an unprepossessing inn halfway back to Toronto.†   (source)
  • He kept saying we weren't in Toronto, a fact that was self-evident to me.†   (source)
  • And he handed her a thick envelope from Toronto.†   (source)
  • Grand juries in Indianapolis and Toronto found this unconvincing.†   (source)
  • Mr. and Mr. Kumar led me to study zoology and religious studies at the University of Toronto.†   (source)
  • I avoid American newspapers and magazines, and American television—and other Americans in Toronto.†   (source)
  • PA R T O N E Toronto and Pondicherry C H A PT E R I My suffering left me sad and gloomy.†   (source)
  • Richard and I would return to Toronto by car, he continued, once things were in place.†   (source)
  • EVER SINCE SHE HAD SENT THE LETTER TO TORONTO, Fumiko had been a bundle of nerves.†   (source)
  • Are you acquainted with a family called Parkinson, in Toronto?†   (source)
  • John: it's something of a joke, you know—how you don't even know your way around Toronto."†   (source)
  • If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush hour.†   (source)
  • — CONFESSION OF GRACE MARKS, Star and Transcript, Toronto, November 1843.†   (source)
  • We took the teddy bear I'd bought for Reenie's baby, at Simpsons, in Toronto.†   (source)
  • Toronto: July 14, 1987—still waiting for my invitation to Georgian Bay; it can't come soon enough.†   (source)
  • I know a woman here in Toronto who is very dear to my heart.†   (source)
  • Toronto: September 27, 1987—overcast, with rain inevitable by the end of the day.†   (source)
  • They have it in a bottle, at the University in Toronto.†   (source)
  • According to him, the drivers in Toronto were all crazy.†   (source)
  • Toronto: July 21, 1987—it is a scorcher in town today.†   (source)
  • — CONFESSION OF GRACE MARKS, Star and Transcript, Toronto, November 1843.†   (source)
  • It was felt to be more convenient, as most of the guests would be from Toronto.†   (source)
  • The eminent Reverend Egerton Ryerson, of Toronto, followed much the same course.†   (source)
  • Several days before leaving Toronto, I'd sought out Callista Fitzsimmons.†   (source)
  • Toronto: April 19, 1987—a humid, summery Easter Sunday.†   (source)
  • Only one corpse in the river so far this year, a drug-ridden young woman from Toronto.†   (source)
  • DOESN'T THE STUPID TORONTO DAILY STAR KNOW WHO THESE YOUNG AMERICANS IN CANADA ARE?†   (source)
  • He is currently a partner in a Toronto law firm, having made a rapid professional rise.†   (source)
  • Mr. Royal Classic was Richard Griffen, of Royal Classic Knitwear in Toronto.†   (source)
  • Toronto: February 1, 1987—the Fourth Sunday After Epiphany.†   (source)
  • The train pulls into the station at Toronto, and Simon attempts to put such thoughts behind him.†   (source)
  • Toronto: February 5, 1987—Liberace died yesterday; he was sixty-seven.†   (source)
  • They are said to come in from Toronto, these muggers, as all ills do.†   (source)
  • Simon has taken the morning train for Toronto.†   (source)
  • He was going to Toronto more and more often, on business.†   (source)
  • Toronto: September 17, 1987—rainy and cool; back-to-school weather, back-to-church weather.†   (source)
  • — AUTHOR UNKNOWN, History of Toronto and the County of York, Ontario, 1885.†   (source)
  • Toronto: May 14, 1987—another sunny morning, but rain developing.†   (source)
  • After that we spent several weeks in Toronto, while Richard caught up on his affairs.†   (source)
  • I could not help but observe, that the enclosed letter is from the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto.†   (source)
  • The house of my new employment was very grand, and was known as one of the finest houses in Toronto.†   (source)
  • And I arrived in Ottawa on a rainy day; I just kept driving until I got to Toronto.†   (source)
  • Back in Toronto, I waited for Laura to arrive.†   (source)
  • Toronto: April 12, 1987—a rainy Palm Sunday.†   (source)
  • After Europe and New York, Toronto seemed squat and cramped.†   (source)
  • At last we reached Toronto, which was where they said the free land could be obtained.†   (source)
  • Toronto: May 12, 1987—a sunny, cool day, a good day to mow a lawn.†   (source)
  • Yesterday Walter drove me into Toronto for the appointment with the lawyer.†   (source)
  • — CONFESSION OF GRACE MARKS, Star and Transcript, Toronto, November 1843.†   (source)
  • I asked her one evening when we were all back in Toronto.†   (source)
  • Toronto: February 4, 1987—there was almost no one at the Wednesday morning communion service.†   (source)
  • I suppose she meant, in all of Toronto—in all of Canada …. this wilderness, so to speak.†   (source)
  • We returned to Toronto via New York, in mid-August, in a heat wave.†   (source)
  • Richard talked on the telephone a lot, long distance; or else he'd go into Toronto for the day.†   (source)
  • Then he would call Dan to complain; he even called me a few times—in Toronto!†   (source)
  • If Hester had been in Toronto then, not even Hester would have been arrested!†   (source)
  • I ought to come into Toronto soon, to consult him.†   (source)
  • "Reenie could come to Toronto," said Laura, but Richard said she didn't want to.†   (source)
  • We were on the eight-lane freeway, close to Toronto.†   (source)
  • The funeral will be held in Toronto at the Church of St. Simon the Apostle on Wednesday.†   (source)
  • I wasn't yet ready to ask her what she was doing back in Toronto.†   (source)
  • SixOfOne had once claimed that he was a black, male American of Catholic origin living in Toronto.†   (source)
  • They were classmates at the University of Toronto.†   (source)
  • Bryn suggested on the phone from Toronto, where she was wrapping her latest film.†   (source)
  • If there's nothing in B.C., I think we should go east and take our chances in Toronto.†   (source)
  • Toronto is behind us, a smear of brownish air on the horizon, like smoke from a distant burning.†   (source)
  • 'I saw him last year at the Queen's Plate race in Toronto.†   (source)
  • C'mon," said McLeod to his religious friend from Toronto.†   (source)
  • But I was thinking about the time Owen and I met a couple of years ago in Toronto.†   (source)
  • It's the only French restaurant in Toronto, according to Josef.†   (source)
  • Toronto Spadina) and three Liberals declared themselves in opposition to the government.†   (source)
  • I thought about putting Jockey shorts on them, in deference to Toronto, but decided against it.†   (source)
  • I'm going to write to a doctor in Toronto that Dad knows.†   (source)
  • Stephen in particular, home for the summer after his time in Toronto, can hardly be called a child.†   (source)
  • The Royal Visit finally reaches Toronto.†   (source)
  • It's the quintessential Toronto middle-class-matron put-down, the ultimate disapproval.†   (source)
  • We could all stay together if we could find someone in Toronto to sponsor us.†   (source)
  • He says Toronto is getting overpopulated, and also polluted.†   (source)
  • First thing I'll do when I get to Toronto is go out at night.†   (source)
  • What if I transfer the Slocan papers to someone else and then don't get the Toronto permit?†   (source)
  • There isn't that much to do for entertainment on the weekends in Toronto.†   (source)
  • I'm consulting with Dad and Mark and Aya about going to Toronto.†   (source)
  • Good old Toronto bet hedging and qualification.†   (source)
  • As for Toronto, he says, it has no gaiety or soul.†   (source)
  • In Toronto there were the Jews who opened their businesses to employ the Nisei.†   (source)
  • We got a letter today from the doctor in Toronto offering us the top floor of his house.†   (source)
  • Toronto lies behind it, at a great distance, burning in thought like Gomorrah.†   (source)
  • I dream I'm putting on my winter clothes, in Toronto, but my dress doesn't fit.†   (source)
  • I find I have a minor, ambiguous reputation, from the show in Toronto, and I am invited to parties.†   (source)
  • On it is spray-painted, in defiance of squeaky-clean Toronto: It's Bacon or Me, Babe.†   (source)
  • Toronto is nowhere, and nothing happens in it.†   (source)
  • Now it's chock-full: Toronto's bloating itself to death, that much is clear.†   (source)
  • Princess Elizabeth is coming to Toronto.†   (source)
  • Toronto didn't used to have names like Charna.†   (source)
  • I memorize the diagrams of her proposed route through Toronto.†   (source)
  • There aren't many theaters in Toronto, in fact there are only two, so many people go to these plays.†   (source)
  • The price of a hotel in Toronto, he said, even a second-rate hotel, is becoming offensive.†   (source)
  • Larry will come down from Toronto and locate Nathan and—well, deal with him.†   (source)
  • In those antediluvian pre-jet days Toronto was as far away as Tokyo, and I gave a moan of despair.†   (source)
  • Gogol doesn't like to think about the fact that Moushumi's connection to Graham persists through Astrid and Donald, that through them Moushumi has learned that Graham lives in Toronto now, is married and a father of twins.†   (source)
  • The intensive press coverage of his mission and his arrival in Toronto had generated thousands of tips, all useless.†   (source)
  • She answered in a voice almost too soft to hear, "I saw them at Toronto in the morgue, side by side."†   (source)
  • Then, in early 1951, he moved to Toronto and set up a plumbing business with another Holocaust survivor.†   (source)
  • Toronto, Canada August 2000†   (source)
  • Indianapolis indicted Holmes for the murder of Howard Pitezel, Toronto for the murders of Alice and Nellie.†   (source)
  • Together Geyer and Cuddy scoured the hotels and boardinghouses of Toronto and after days of searching found that here, too, Holmes had been moving three parties of travelers simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Toronto, August 2000†   (source)
  • He became my favourite teacher at Petit Seminaire and the reason I studied zoology at the University of Toronto.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to read at the Toronto Zoo—a very fine zoo, I might add—that leopards can jump eighteen feet straight up.†   (source)
  • His newspaper came that morning at eight-thirty as it always did, he wrote, "and I had hardly opened it before I saw in large headlines the announcement of the finding of the children in Toronto.†   (source)
  • I won't say that our zoo compared to the zoos of San Diego or Toronto or Berlin or Singapore, but you can't keep a good zookeeper down.†   (source)
  • She caught a train to Toronto.†   (source)
  • After one year of high school, I attended the University of Toronto and took a double-major Bachelor's degree.†   (source)
  • Now Geyer and Cuddy began searching the records of real estate agencies and contacting the owners of rental homes, but Toronto was far larger than any other city Geyer had searched.†   (source)
  • Though she has lived in Toronto for over thirty years, her Frenchspeaking mind still slips on occasion on the understanding of English sounds.†   (source)
  • District Attorney George Graham brought thirty-five witnesses to Philadelphia from Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Irvington, Detroit, Toronto, Boston, Burlington, and Fort Worth, but they never were called.†   (source)
  • Mexican and Canadian officials opened all doors for me so that from the beach in Mexico to the home of my foster mother to the classrooms of the University of Toronto, there was only one long, easy corridor I had to walk down.†   (source)
  • "Nothing could be more surprising," Geyer wrote, "than the apparent ease with which Holmes murdered the two little girls in the very center of the city of Toronto, without arousing the least suspicion of a single person there."†   (source)
  • I would have received the Governor General's Academic Medal, the University of Toronto's highest undergraduate award, of which no small number of illustrious Canadians have been recipients, were it not for a beef-eating pink boy with a neck like a tree trunk and a temperament of unbearable good cheer.†   (source)
  • The house was charming, with a steeply pitched central gable and scalloped trim like the gingerbread house in a fairy tale, except this house sat not alone in a deep wood, but in the heart of Toronto on a fine street closely lined with elegant homes and yards fenced with fleur-de-lis pickets.†   (source)
  • And here I cannot say finis—it is not the end— for besides doing this there is also the work of bringing to justice those for whose wrong-doings I am to-day suffering, and this not to prolong or save my own life, for since the day I heard of the Toronto horror I have not cared to live; but that to those who have looked up to and honored me in the past it shall not in the future be said that I suffered the ignominious death of a murderer.†   (source)
  • IN PHILADELPHIA, ON THE MORNING Of Tuesday, July 16, 1895—the day Geyer's Toronto discoveries were reported in the nation's newspapers—the district attorney's office telephoned an urgent message to the warden at Moyamensing Prison, instructing him to keep all the morning's newspapers away from Holmes.†   (source)
  • Dr. Jordan has gone off to Toronto.†   (source)
  • And so we went on through the night, and at last the sky grew lighter; and we reached Toronto a little after five in the morning.†   (source)
  • He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way.†   (source)
  • — DR. JOSEPH WORKMAN, Medical Superintendent, Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto; Letter to "Henry," a young and troubled enquirer, 1866.†   (source)
  • But I saw where the Show was next to be performed, and that is why I am sending this to the Theatre in Toronto, in hopes it will find you.†   (source)
  • It's sunny again in Toronto today; the fruit trees are blossoming— especially the pears and apples and crab apples.†   (source)
  • The boy Jamie walked along beside me, and he said shyly, Is it big, Toronto, is it very grand, I have never been there, but I only said Grand enough.†   (source)
  • It was a surprise to discover that Toronto wasn't as snowy and cold as New Hampshire—and not nearly as provincial, either.†   (source)
  • It will take us a long time to reach Toronto, I said, in the dark; and also Charley Horse will be tired, having made the trip once today already.†   (source)
  • The Toronto Star added that "the President subsequently made misleading statements about the arms sales"—on four separate occasions!†   (source)
  • Toronto: July 23, 1987—Katherine invited me to her island; no more stupid newspapers; I'm going to Georgian Bay!†   (source)
  • They robbed Kinnear of his silver, They robbed him of his gold, They stole his horse and wagon, And to Toronto they rode.†   (source)
  • Today—January 30, 1987—it is snowing in Toronto; in the dog's opinion, Toronto is improved by snow.†   (source)
  • I could not find it in me to answer him about Toronto, because right then I was bitterly sorry I had ever left it.†   (source)
  • No, it must be in the house in Toronto.†   (source)
  • There was another story in The Toronto Star, more appropriate to the paradisiacal view of the universe one can enjoy from Georgian Bay.†   (source)
  • From time to time I would make the trip into Toronto and shadow Sabrina, like a private eye in an old detective story.†   (source)
  • Then we found that the next ferry did not leave for the States until eight o'clock, and we would have to wait in Toronto another two hours or so.†   (source)
  • O Nancy dear, do not despair, To town I now must go, To bring some money home for you, From the Bank in Toronto.†   (source)
  • But Toronto is not far enough away.†   (source)
  • It's odd to remember this now, but the Royal York Hotel was the tallest building in Toronto then, and the Imperial Room was the biggest dining room.†   (source)
  • They hanged him in front of the jail in Toronto, and You should have been there Grace, say the keepers, it would have been a lesson to you.†   (source)
  • It was shortly after the fourth or fifth such incident when Dan telephoned me—in Toronto—and said: "It's about your grandmother.†   (source)
  • Everything's been moved to Toronto.†   (source)
  • 20 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario†   (source)
  • All in the middle of the night, To Toronto they did flee, Then across the Lake to the United States, Thinking they would scape free.†   (source)
  • She's my closest friend in Toronto, now that Canon Campbell is gone; and even though she's my boss, I've been at Bishop Strachan longer than she has.†   (source)
  • My first week in Toronto, I had an interview at Upper Canada College; the whole school made me feel that I'd never left Gravesend Academy!†   (source)
  • I'd seen Red Indians in Toronto, as they would sometimes go there to collect their treaty money; and others would come to the back door at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's with baskets to sell, and fish.†   (source)
  • He's been muttering about tests and scans, and trips into Toronto where the specialists lurk, those few who have not fled for greener pastures.†   (source)
  • Toronto: November 17, 1970—the Bishop Strachan greenhouse burned down today, and the faculty and students had to evacuate the school buildings.†   (source)
  • People snuck off to Stratford or London or Toronto even, and obtained their copies on the sly, as was the custom then with condoms.†   (source)
  • He likes to picture the sufferings as well, and nothing will do but that I have to tell him some story or other about being in the Penitentiary, or else the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto.†   (source)
  • In Mrs. Prior, noted philanthropist, the city of Toronto has lost one of its most loyal and long-standing benefactresses.†   (source)
  • Toronto: June 9, 1987—after a weekend of wonderful weather here, sunny and clear-skyed and as cool as it is in the fall, I broke down and bought The New York Times; thank God, no one I know saw me.†   (source)
  • They put us into the jail in Toronto, locked up in cells, like animals in a cage, but not so close together that we could speak; and then they examined us separately.†   (source)
  • Toronto is sober, but not austere; Gravesend is austere, but also pretty; Toronto is not pretty, but in the snow Toronto can look like Gravesend—both pretty and austere.†   (source)
  • "You can't take them back to Toronto!"†   (source)
  • I had the very experience myself, or the twin of it; for I had to pass many hours with her, in her jail cell in Toronto, while she spun out her yarn for me to as great a length as it would go.†   (source)
  • To make matters worse: the Toronto Blue Jays are involved in a pennant race; if the Blue Jays make it to the World Series, the talk of the town will be baseball.†   (source)
  • You are aware that she has spent time in the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto, seven or eight years ago it was, and although she appears to be perfectly recovered you never know when they may get carried away again, sometimes she talks to herself and sings out loud in a most peculiar manner.†   (source)
  • He and I would go in to Toronto by train, arriving at Union Station, crossing the street to the hotel.†   (source)
  • When Hester has a concert in Toronto, my students who number themselves among her adoring fans always approach me for tickets; they know I'm good for a dozen or so.†   (source)
  • Yours very truly, Enoch Verringer, M.A., D. Div. From Dr. Samuel Bannerling, M.D., The Maples, Front Street, Toronto; to the Reverend Enoch Verringer, Sydenham Street Methodist Church, Kingston, Ontario.†   (source)
  • Sometimes there were informal weekend house parties, the guests being artistic friends of Callista's from Toronto.†   (source)
  • "I THINK WE'VE GOT IT RIGHT" Weekdays in Toronto: 8:00 A.M., Morning Prayer; 5:15 P.m., Evening Prayer; Holy Eucharist every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.†   (source)
  • THE MURDERS OF THOMAS KINNEAR, ESQ. AND OF HIS HOUSEKEEPER NANCY MONTGOMERY AT RICHMOND HILL AND THE TRIALS OF GRACE MARKS AND JAMES McDERMOTT AND THE HANGING OF JAMES McDERMOTT AT THE NEW GAOL IN TORONTO, NOVEMBER 21st, 1843.†   (source)
  • The last time I went to see Aimee, she was living in a slummy row house near Parliament Street, in Toronto.†   (source)
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