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  • Edinburgh, maybe, perhaps farther still.†  (source)
  • Hume grew up near Edinburgh in Scotland.†  (source)
  • There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor.†  (source)
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  • This was an old saw, particularly in Edinburgh.†  (source)
  • Had more tattoos than the Edinburgh Festival and all his teeth filed as sharp as daggers, but he lugged this coffin onto every ship he sailed with so's if he died, he'd have a proper Christian funeral and not be chucked over the side sewn up in a bit o' canvas with a cannonball for company.†  (source)
  • Dr. Kerr, a graduate of Edinburgh University, was virtually the founder of Fort Hare and was a greatly respected man.†  (source)
  • Rush—high-spirited, handsome, and all of thirty—had studied medicine in Edinburgh and in London, where he came to know Benjamin Franklin and once dined with Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.†  (source)
  • There is speculation that the very spelling of the city's name, ending with an "h," echoed the Scottish Edinburgh, whereas Harrisburg, the state capital, like Hamburg with no "h," reflected the influence of many German settlers.†  (source)
  • My mother and I were mostly in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Oxford, England, though.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Rodricks, still very much alive, lectured in advanced probability theory at Edinburgh University.†  (source)
  • She picked one up, feeling the shiny leather admirably, peering for the label: "John Craftsman, Edinburgh," it said.†  (source)
  • And secretly he resolved that he would not tell her, but he would slip out of the house at dawn when they were all asleep and if he could not find it he would go to Edinburgh and buy her another, just like it but more beautiful.†  (source)
  • I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart—'The Battle of Hohenlinden' and 'Edinburgh after Flodden,' and 'Bingen of the Rhine,' and most of the 'Lady of the Lake' and most of 'The Seasons' by James Thompson.†  (source)
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