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  • We had gone through the formal steps of making application to the Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital of Queen Elizabeth Il Medical Center, the major teaching center in Western Australia and their only referral center for neurosurgery.†   (source)
  • In the hush that ensued he would announce gravely that the Department of Agriculture—he had a letter—credited their fair island with producing America's Finest Strawberry, or that King George and Queen Elizabeth, on a recent visit to the city of Vancouver, had been served San Piedro's Best for breakfast.†   (source)
  • It was brown, and got its name from Queen Elizabeth, whose nickname was Bess, because they first used that type of gun a lot during her time.†   (source)
  • He knew that to the east there lay an impenetrable mountain chain and that on the other side of the mountains there was the ardent city of Riohacha, where in times past-according to what he had been told by the first Aureliano Buendia, his grandfather-Sir Francis Drake had gone crocodile hunting with cannons and that he repaired hem and stuffed them with straw to bring to Queen Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • Let's imagine for the moment that you're taking a world cruise, on the Queen Elizabeth 2, say.†   (source)
  • And looked helpless like a shinbone, or a tiny speck of black on the Queen Elizabeth roses, or film on the eye of a dead goldfish.†   (source)
  • The miso shim, smelling of brine and the sea, is on the stove and the black lacquered bowls with the black lids wait on a tray on the warmer above the stove beside the King George/Queen Elizabeth mugs Mother bought to commemorate the royal visit.†   (source)
  • I wandered through the ancient Greek and Egyptian galleries, but my favorite spot was the manuscript room, with letters written by the kings and queens of England, Henry VIII and poor Anne Boleyn, and Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria.†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter to me if he's a vagrant or Queen Elizabeth or Jesus Christ—it just matters that we win this case for him, so that he can die on his own terms.†   (source)
  • Every question is discussed with moderation, and an acuteness and minuteness equal to that of Queen Elizabeth's privy council.†   (source)
  • It's funny but last year the Sex Pistols ended up doing the same thing with a photograph of Queen Elizabeth on the cover of their God Save the Queen single.†   (source)
  • Queen Elizabeth might never be born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all.†   (source)
  • She was being Queen Elizabeth the First of England, and Billy was supposedly Christopher Columbus.†   (source)
  • He will volunteer to scrub toilets at a London shelter for the poor—a penance that he will continue to perform long after Queen Elizabeth restores his social status in 1975 by making him a Commander of the British Empire.†   (source)
  • Servants help Marie Antoinette and Sir Walter Raleigh, Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth from their coaches.†   (source)
  • In 1959, Queen Elizabeth named West a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the female equivalent of an honorary knighthood.†   (source)
  • He had been Queen Elizabeth's personal magician.†   (source)
  • It was an intensive care cubicle in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.†   (source)
  • The one that was born at the Queen Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • The King George/Queen Elizabeth mugs stay muffled in the Vancouver Daily Province.†   (source)
  • Their tombs, packed into every last niche and alcove, range in grandeur from the most regal of mausoleums—that of Queen Elizabeth I, whose canopied sarcophagus inhabits its own private, apsidal chapel—down to the most modest etched floor tiles whose inscriptions have worn away with centuries of foot traffic, leaving it to one's imagination whose relics might lie below the tile in the undercroft.†   (source)
  • He went back to selling antiques, and with the court's permission he traveled to New York to attend a black-tie party for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibition of Queen Elizabeth's collection of Faberge.†   (source)
  • He flipped it open: on the page facing an image of Queen Elizabeth I was an old-fashioned etching of a sharp-faced man with a triangular beard.†   (source)
  • Moving me—a foreign minor—to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital was not a simple exercise, and Bolger soon found himself tangled in the hoops of British and Pakistani bureaucracy.†   (source)
  • Dr. Javid, who is emergency care consultant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, agreed, but asked to take Dr. Fiona, as she is from Birmingham Children's Hospital and a specialist in children's intensive care.†   (source)
  • He did choose the date for Queen Elizabeth I's coronation, and when he was part of her network of spies, he signed his coded messages 007.†   (source)
  • His was the world of Queen Elizabeth I, and he had served the Queen in many capacities: as an advisor and a translator, a mathematician and an astronomer, and a personal astrologer.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately for Queen Elizabeth, there was lead in her face paint, which may have caused lead poisoning, affecting her brain.†   (source)
  • They parted amicably, and Smith went, of all places, to the East, signing on as trainer for cosmetic queen Elizabeth Arden Graham.†   (source)
  • I thought of blood poisoning, thought of Mouldy up in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and the doctor saying to Mouldy's mother, "There's no way we can save it, Mrs. Mould.†   (source)
  • They were as motionless as Lord Burleigh is said to have been at Queen Elizabeth's councils, or as a sleek cat who faces the mouse-hole secretly—a presence, a concentration.†   (source)
  • "Why certainly, Ben," said Harry Tugman impatiently, "that's the idea, but Queen Elizabeth was behind it.†   (source)
  • Queen Elizabeth was a success because her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.†   (source)
  • What is odd, the compliment to Queen Elizabeth[547] is in bad rhythm.†   (source)
  • The good Earl of Kent had too much sense to abuse his peculiar privilege; but he exercised it twice after the instance we have seen of it before he was called from this world—once at the accession of Queen Mary, and once at the accession of Queen Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • Here was Philip Herbert, described by Francis Osborne, in his "Memoires on the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James," as one who was "caressed by the Court for his handsome face, which kept him not long company."†   (source)
  • There has not been a scandal in the neighbourhood since the time of Queen Elizabeth, and consequently they all fall asleep after dinner.†   (source)
  • I started off: "When I was a boy, and for long after, except for a piece about Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, and for the part about High Beech, the Forest was almost wholly made up of pollard hornbeams mixed with holly thickets.†   (source)
  • They went up the stone staircase leading simply to the long gallery above the cloisters, a gallery where all the dusty worthless old pictures had been banished for the last three generations—mouldy portraits of Queen Elizabeth and her ladies, General Monk with his eye knocked out, Daniel very much in the dark among the lions, and Julius Caesar on horseback, with a high nose and laurel crown, holding his Commentaries in his hand.†   (source)
  • A staring old Dedlock in a panel, as large as life and as dull, looks as if he didn't know what to make of it, which was probably his general state of mind in the days of Queen Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • We are amused at beholding the costume of Henry VIII, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as if it was that of the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands.†   (source)
  • I think there are at least twenty bedrooms on the first floor; one of them has the bed in which Queen Elizabeth slept; and I have been taken by my new pupils through all these fine apartments this morning.†   (source)
  • There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine, and all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth,[599] and King James,[600] and the Essexes,[601] Leicesters,[602] Burleighs,[603] and Buckinghams;[604] and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty[605] to be remembered,—the man who carries the Saxon…†   (source)
  • "Couldn't forget HIM!" cried out Becky, "that selfish humbug, that low-bred cockney dandy, that padded booby, who had neither wit, nor manners, nor heart, and was no more to be compared to your friend with the bamboo cane than you are to Queen Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • It is related, with regard to the borough of Queen's Crawley, that Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament; and the place, from the day of that illustrious visit, took the name of Queen's Crawley,…†   (source)
  • Get down the round-hand scrawls of your son who has half broken your heart with selfish undutifulness since; or a parcel of your own, breathing endless ardour and love eternal, which were sent back by your mistress when she married the Nabob—your mistress for whom you now care no more than for Queen Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • "My lady is served," says the butler in black, in an immense white shirt-frill, that looked as if it had been one of the Queen Elizabeth's ruffs depicted in the hall; and so, taking Mr. Crawley's arm, she led the way to the dining-room, whither I followed with my little pupils in each hand.†   (source)
  • The family tree (which hangs up at Queen's Crawley) furthermore mentions Charles Stuart, afterwards called Barebones Crawley, son of the Crawley of James the First's time; and finally, Queen Elizabeth's Crawley, who is represented as the foreground of the picture in his forked beard and armour.†   (source)
  • And when this Queen Elizabeth saw that there was none other bote, then she made great dole, and said unto her gentlewoman: When ye see my lord, King Meliodas, recommend me unto him, and tell him what pains I endure here for his love, and how I must die here for his sake for default of good help; and let him wit that I am full sorry to depart out of this world from him, therefore pray him to be friend to my soul.†   (source)
  • [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK.]   (source)
  • [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, the young DUKE OF YORK, QUEEN ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS OF YORK.†   (source)
  • [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, distractedly; RIVERS and DORSET following her.†   (source)
  • Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,— QUEEN ELIZABETH.†   (source)
  • [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, LORD RIVERS, and LORD GREY.†   (source)
  • Candide was very pleased with an actress who played Queen Elizabeth in a somewhat insipid tragedy[23] sometimes acted.†   (source)
  • And when this Queen Elizabeth saw that there was none other bote, then she made great dole, and said unto her gentlewoman: When ye see my lord, King Meliodas, recommend me unto him, and tell him what pains I endure here for his love, and how I must die here for his sake for default of good help; and let him wit that I am full sorry to depart out of this world from him, therefore pray him to be friend to my soul.†   (source)
  • First, the Power of the Popes was dissolved totally by Queen Elizabeth; and the Bishops, who before exercised their Functions in Right of the Pope, did afterwards exercise the same in Right of the Queen and her Successours; though by retaining the phrase of Jure Divino, they were thought to demand it by immediate Right from God: And so was untyed the first knot.†   (source)
  • Then, by myself,— QUEEN ELIZABETH.†   (source)
  • Why, then, by God,— QUEEN ELIZABETH.†   (source)
  • My father's death,— QUEEN ELIZABETH.†   (source)
  • [Enter KING EDWARD, led in sick, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM, GREY, and others.†   (source)
  • Now, by the world,— QUEEN ELIZABETH.†   (source)
  • Before the Tower [Enter, on one side, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DUCHESS of YORK, and MARQUIS of DORSET; on the other, ANNE DUCHESS of GLOSTER, leading LADY MARGARET PLANTAGENET, CLARENCE's young daughter.†   (source)
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