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  • In February of 1997 workers at a McDonald's restaurant in St. Hubert, a suburb of Montreal, applied to join the Teamsters union.†   (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)
  • By the time I heard about her situation, Maranda was experiencing up to 100 seizures a day, as often as three minutes apart, making the right side of her In the 1940s, however, a Montreal doctor, Theodore Rasmussen, discovered something new about the rare disease that affected Maranda.†   (source)
  • So far we'd only gone to the Bahamas once, Florida, and Montreal—but my parents are always talking about taking us to Europe someday.†   (source)
  • It was after nine o'clock and dark when Jordan approached Chime's vehicle on the shoulder of Montreal Road.†   (source)
  • The phone rang in the kitchen and an unfamiliar voice came on, speaking urgently about tickets for Montreal, interrupting itself to say, Oh damn, that's right, I forgot you were off to Europe with Frederic.†   (source)
  • , Experimental Research m Televised Instruction, vol. 5 (Montreal, Canada: Concordia Research, 1982).†   (source)
  • "Montreal!" shouted another.†   (source)
  • He loved to come out and teach the girls--he said they reminded him of the cousins he had once played with in his grandmother's house in Montreal.†   (source)
  • It's 3:15 p.m. What time is it in Montreal?†   (source)
  • General Richard Montgomery, who, with 300 men, had joined in the assault, attacking from Montreal, had been killed.†   (source)
  • Probably one of your rich Canadian guests, perhaps a Frenchie from Montreal who came out of the Résistance and who thought of you-†   (source)
  • Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal.†   (source)
  • Once or twice she went to Montreal, which worried me a little, because whenever she called to say she was fine I would hear the sound of French in the background, all breezy and guttural.†   (source)
  • In October, Booth traveled to Montreal, where he met with agents of Jefferson Davis's.†   (source)
  • In his white shirt, tie and best jacket, he was as impressive as any Montreal executive, and cast in bronze his head would not have been out of place in that museum room reserved for the busts of the ancient Romans.†   (source)
  • Mr. Field had his eye on a certain Monet up in Montreal, and he let it be known that he thought he could get hold of it for thirty, with a little luck.†   (source)
  • Waves, colored zigzags, a garble of sound: it's the Montreal satellite station, being blocked.†   (source)
  • All the action was happening in Montreal.†   (source)
  • From London, he went to New York, to Montreal.†   (source)
  • It was supposed to carry Billy and twenty-eight other optometrists to a convention in Montreal.†   (source)
  • It was Davis who, nearly a year ago, sent two agents to Montreal with a fund of $1 million in gold.†   (source)
  • Her circles in Montreal expanded, the summers taken up with jobs in and outside the university.†   (source)
  • He was paid in gold, credited to the Bank of Montreal.†   (source)
  • I mailed the parcel to Montreal but we never heard whether they received them.†   (source)
  • At the entranceway was a bronzed statue of the Institute's mascot, the spoat/gider — one of the first successful splices, done in Montreal at the turn of the century, goat crossed with spider to produce high-tensile spider silk filaments in the milk.†   (source)
  • She was a Catholic, and travelling with her daughter's two children, who had been left behind when the family emigrated; and now she was taking them to Montreal, as her son-in-law had paid their passage; and I helped her with the children, and later I was glad I did so.†   (source)
  • …seemed to be around fifty or sixty, poorly shaven, with a shy, pleasant, large-featured face neither handsome nor plain— a man who would always be bigger than most of the other men in the room, though he also seemed unhealthy in some clammy, ill-defined way, with black-circled eyes and a pallor that made me think of the Jesuit martyrs depicted in the church murals I'd seen on our school trip to Montreal: large, capable, death-pale Europeans, staked and bound in the camps of the Hurons.†   (source)
  • The chain of events that led John Wilkes Booth to Mudd's farm in the predawn hours of April 15, 1865, began six months earlier in Montreal, Canada.†   (source)
  • Miss Chase is the daughter of Captain Norval Chase, and the grand-daughter of the late Mrs. Benjamin Montfort Chase, of Montreal.†   (source)
  • She was from an established family, or what passed for it in Canada — second-generation Montreal English crossed with Huguenot French.†   (source)
  • I might have ended up in Montreal; but too many people were pissy to me there, because I couldn't speak French.†   (source)
  • The Montfort women of Montreal had been celebrated for their style, she said, but of course Adelia Montfort had died before I was born.†   (source)
  • I wanted to go to Europe, or to New York, or even to Montreal — to nightclubs, to soirees, to all the exciting places mentioned in Reenie's social magazines — but I was needed at home.†   (source)
  • First there's a quote from a newspaper — a Montreal newspaper, not ours — with the date, 1899: One must not imagine the dark Satanic mills of Olde England.†   (source)
  • Presented to Their Majesties were Colonel and Mrs. E Phelan, of Montreal; she wore a printed silk, on which bloomed small vivid flowers, and her smart hat had a large clear brim of Cellophane.†   (source)
  • We can only applaud Captain Chase's efforts, a man who holds to his word, unlike the strikebreaking and lockout tactics in centres such as Winnipeg and Montreal, which has kept Port Ticonderoga a law-abiding town and clear of the scenes of Union riots, brutal violence and Communist-inspired bloodshed which have marred other cities with considerable destruction of property and injury as well as loss of life.†   (source)
  • In private correspondence with James Warren, at the time of Franklin's arduous mission to Montreal in 1776, Adams had written : Franklin's character you know.†   (source)
  • A strapping girl from Calgary with two older brothers to compete with could drink more beer than half the university boys in Montreal.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he is in Montreal for the weekend, where they have much better restaurants and decent wines.†   (source)
  • His vehicle had been hemmed in by a slow-moving car in front and another car behind; all three vehicles were moving along the narrow space on Montreal Road at a crawl.†   (source)
  • In the hope that the Canadians could be persuaded to join the American cause as "the 14th colony," Congress organized a diplomatic expedition to Montreal with Benjamin Franklin at its head, and despite his age and poor health, Franklin departed on what was to be an exceedingly arduous and futile mission.†   (source)
  • She had lived in Calgary with her parents and two brothers until she was eighteen, when she went to McGill University in Montreal and the beginnings of a life she had never contemplated.†   (source)
  • Aunt Emily is calling from the airport in Calgary, where she's waiting for Stephen's flight from Montreal.†   (source)
  • In the breast pocket of a dark coat hanging on a wall peg, they discover a ledger book from the Ontario Bank in Montreal.†   (source)
  • On it are written the keys to top-secret coded Confederate messages that link him with Jefferson Davis's office in Richmond and with the million-dollar gold fund in Montreal.†   (source)
  • He's in Montreal these days?†   (source)
  • In the same month the last payment was made to him, Booth traveled to Montreal to collect the money and rendezvous with John Surratt and other members of the Confederate Secret Service to plot the Lincoln issue.†   (source)
  • But rather than give the testimony that might have spared her life, John Surratt fled to Montreal, Canada, immediately after the assassination, where he followed the news of his mother's trial and execution.†   (source)
  • She doesn't know about the secret trips to Montreal and New York to meet with other conspirators, nor about the hidden caches of guns or the buggy that Booth purchased specifically to ferry the kidnapped president out of Washington, nor about the money transfers that fund his entire operation.†   (source)
  • He was married in Montreal in 1915 to a Miss Sarah Evangeline Cutler, who is still living there.†   (source)
  • A learned Scotch Jesuit in Montreal told me that our first bells, and the introduction of the bell in the service all over Europe, originally came from the East.†   (source)
  • Go to Atlantic City for a week, or up to Montreal.†   (source)
  • You can see Montreal and New York, and then if you don't want to stay you can go back.†   (source)
  • "The next train for Montreal leaves when?" he asked.†   (source)
  • "Does any part of this train go to Montreal?" he asked.†   (source)
  • "You'll feel better when we reach Montreal," he said.†   (source)
  • "I'd like to know what you did, then, in Montreal?" she answered.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he thought of his experience in Montreal.†   (source)
  • "I think we had better go right on through to Montreal," he said to Carrie.†   (source)
  • I want to go to Montreal for a while, and then anywhere you want to.†   (source)
  • The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening.†   (source)
  • He was thinking if he could only get there and cross the river into Canada, he could take his time about getting to Montreal.†   (source)
  • He wondered now why he had not asked whether this train went on through to Montreal or some Canadian point.†   (source)
  • Montreal was too warm for him.†   (source)
  • The following morning the train pulled safely into Montreal and they stepped down, Hurstwood glad to be out of danger, Carrie wondering at the novel atmosphere of the northern city.†   (source)
  • Montreal and New York!†   (source)
  • On March 5, 1867, the Moravian from the Montreal Ocean Co., lying during the night in latitude 27° 30' and longitude 72° 15', ran its starboard quarter afoul of a rock marked on no charts of these waterways.†   (source)
  • This coat, alone, would be very apt to gain over the head chief of the riptyles, and if his wife or darter should happen to be out with him, that there gownd would soften the heart of any woman that is to be found atween Albany and Montreal.†   (source)
  • At Amherstberg they found the missionary with whom George and Eliza had taken shelter, on their first arrival in Canada; and through him were enabled to trace the family to Montreal.†   (source)
  • And in only a few years, how many victims have been furnished to the obituary notices by the Royal Mail, Inman, and Montreal lines; by vessels named the Solway, the Isis, the Paramatta, the Hungarian, the Canadian, the Anglo–Saxon, the Humboldt, and the United States, all run aground; by the Arctic and the Lyonnais, sunk in collisions; by the President, the Pacific, and the City of Glasgow, lost for reasons unknown; in the midst of their gloomy rubble, the Nautilus navigated as if…†   (source)
  • The worthy pastor of the station, in Amherstberg, where George had first landed, was so much interested in the statements of Madame de Thoux and Cassy, that he yielded to the solicitations of the former, to accompany them to Montreal, in their search,—she bearing all the expense of the expedition.†   (source)
  • …the presidents and speakers of the provincial legislatures, members of the executive councils of the provinces, the chief justice, the judges of the Supreme and Exchequer Courts, the judges of the Supreme Courts of Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the judges of the Courts of Appeal of Manitoba and British Columbia, the Chancery Court of Prince Edward Island, and the Circuit Court of Montreal—these, and no more.†   (source)
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