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stenton
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Stenton , also known as the James Logan Home , was the country home of James Logan , colonial Mayor of Philadelphia and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court . Stenton, which was named for Logan's father's Scottish birthplace , was built between ...
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Stenting \Stent"ing\, n. An opening in a wall in a coal mine. [Written also stenton .] [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
Usage examples of stenton.
William Stenton would never have been able to grab the Farside two-hundred-metre reflector for a full quarter of an hour, if a more important programme had not been temporarily derailed by the failure of a fifty cent capacitor.
Bill Stenton did not know what he had caught until the next day, when he was able to get computer time to process his results.
The great English historian, Sir Frank Stenton, notes that as late as the eleventh century Anglo-Saxon sources could use either word for a single district.
II, affirmed that the verdict of eight of the twelve thanes would be accepted the first example in England, says Stenton, of the principle of a majority verdict by juries.
Boadicaea would drive the camper to the outskirts of Stenton to steal some food, while Brutus rode shotgun, armed with the pistol.
William, Lord of Miraval and Brunbrook, heir to Burke and Stenton, the greatest knight on the isle of England and the duchy of Normandy, has returned to us unharmed, thanks to the intervention of the saints and the Blessed Virgin on the side of right and honor.
Not a few of these homes on the outskirts of the city have come down to us unharmed, and Cliveden, Stenton, and Belmont are precious relics of such solid structure that with ordinary care they will still last for centuries.
Stenton was a somewhat imaginative man, a little too prone to jump to conclusions.