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Usage examples of elgin.

He also instigated sieges and although Urquhart was too strong for him other castles did fall to him including Banff, Elgin and Inverness.

Seventy years before, Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, had set a precedent of sorts when he deliberately removed invaluable sculptures from the Parthenon.

He avoided the patrolling RCMP on the grounds as he made his way eastward, finally pausing at the War Memorial that lifts proudly from the traffic circle joining Wellington, Rideau and Elgin Streets.

Elgin Yaxley was in Hong Kong and Terence O'Tree was in jail, and neither they nor Bart Underfield had burgled, or bashed, or burned.

He started to ask for Jinny Anson, but heard himself say instead, 'Edith Elgin, please.

ELGIN Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff, we set out in the morning, and having breakfasted at Cullen, about noon came to ELGIN, where in the inn, that we supposed the best, a dinner was set before us, which we could not eat.

When he contacted Anadarko again to see if they had anything on Colonel Howard's column yet, they wired back that the cav had stopped for a trail break at the dinky sub-agency at Elgin, meaning Howard was really taking his own good time and that he'd be lucky to make it up to Anadarko by sundown.

Because if the ceremony is there, in the Hall of Ceremonies in the Imperial City, with your Lord Elgin and the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, face to face .

She continued on west to Elgin, Illinois, then kept well west of Lake Winnebago on the way north through Wisconsin.

It had helped that Elgin had suggested they set up the tub in a comer of the kitchen, with dirty linens used as curtains to partition off the section.

We can, if we wish, help ourselves to the Elgin Marbles and the Rosetta Stone and the Portland Vase.

Iliana said as Rabbie left the room and Elgin entered, a bowl of broth in hand.

Director Elgin had the petulant, pushed-in face of an ill-tempered toy dog.

The summits are more than five thousand feet high, and then the roads descend through tiny villages whose buildings are mostly gray shadows of their former incarnations, tumbled with old-fashioned perennials and weeds, fading storefronts and little churches with peeling paint: Adams, Athena, Elgin, Minam, Wallowa, Lostine.

As to his diplomatic style - when the Yankees still had their eye on Canada, and looked like trying annexation, Elgin went through Washington's drawing-rooms like a devouring flame, wining and dining every Southern Democrat he could find, dazzling 'em with his blue blood, telling 'em racy stories, carrying on like `heeryble - and hinting, ever so delicate, that if Canada joined the Great Republic, it would give the Northern Yankees a fine majority in Congress, with all those long-nosed Scotch Calvinists (to say nothing of French Papists) becoming American voters overnight.