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And here have I been telling all my acquaintance that I was going to dance with the prettiest girl in the room; and when they see you standing up with somebody else, they will quiz me famously."
His father objected that he was not rich enough to send the child to a good public school; his mother that Briggs was a capital mistress for him, and had brought him on (as indeed was the fact) famously in English, the Latin rudiments, and in general learning: but all these objections disappeared before the generous perseverance of the Marquis of Steyne.
Chrysostom, kicking about famously the sheets of the thesis, which had fallen on the floor.
They had a lively tea, and were getting on famously afterward, when two letters were brought for Tom, who glanced at one, and retired rather precipitately to his den, leaving Maud consumed with curiosity, and the older girls slightly excited, for Fan thought she recognized the handwriting on one, and Polly, on the other.
Old Brooke caught sight of East, and stopped; put his hand kindly on his shoulder, and said, "Bravo, youngster; you played famously. Not much the matter, I hope?"
Famous for his lengthy speeches and verbosity, his all-time friend and Nobel Laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez once famously said, 'Fidel is addicted to words.' At one public gathering, after inflicting a crushing and humiliating defeat on the US orchestrated counter-revolution coup that was the Bay of Pig invasion, Fidel famously said, 'What the imperialists cannot forgive us is that we have made a Socialist revolution under their noses.'
Summary: Singer was famously known as a member of Super Junior-M
The tongue-twister of a result has been the subject of attention for years, with the late, great comedian Eric Morecambe famously joking it would provide the ultimate mouthful for broadcaster James Alexander Gordon, who read the classified results on the BBC.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Feb 23 (ANI): A complaint has been registered against Bollywood singer Angarag Papon Mahanta, famously known as Papon, for 'inappropriately kissing a minor girl'.
While Jackson was famously reclusive, the current owners are clearly keen on entertaining.
Dame Margot famously partnered with another star of the dancing world, Rudolph Nureyev, most famously in both Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet.
Filipino film icon and actor Ronald Allan Poe, famously known as Fernando Poe Jr.
Big Sam is an advocate of route one football, and as Paul McCartney famously asked, what's wrong with that, I'd like to know?