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n. (plural of borough English)

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The club intended to do great things,--to find Liberal candidates for all the boroughs and counties in England which had not hitherto been furnished, and then to supply the candidates with money.

There would always be worthy men in boroughs who liked to exercise some second-hand authority.

I doubt whether Lord Drummond, when he sat silent in the Cabinet, had realized those fears which weighed upon him so strongly afterwards, or had then foreseen that the adoption of a nearly similar franchise for the counties and boroughs must inevitably lead to the American system of numerical representation.

The figure moved as smoothly as the images of the Great Gods brought from Carcosa to outlying boroughs in wheeled carts during the Tithe Processions.

She spoke the way the butcher did when he made his rounds through the boroughs north along the coast of Haft.

As yet, indeed, the little boroughs were for the most part busy in fighting for the most elementary of liberties--for freedom of trade within the town, for permission to hold a market, for leave to come and go freely to some great fair, for the right to buy and sell in some neighbouring borough, for liberty to carry out their own justice and regulate the affairs of their town.

Gilds of bakers, of weavers, of mercers, of fullers, of butchers, goldsmiths, pepperers, clothiers, and pilgrims appeared in London, York, Gloucester, Nottingham, even in little boroughs such as that of St.

After trying each of the city boroughs, the operator finally found a Westchester number for the Sabrina had given.