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_Jambs_ -- the sides of a window opening or doorway.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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Here and on "Windsor Jambs" and "Tracking Pierrot", the mood is restive, inquisitive, yet never wilfully antagonistic: like his peers, Brown was heavily influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but in his case the mobiles of Alexander Calder were equally as important as the flowing lines of Jackson Pollock.
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Jambs, second Earl Waldegrave, was born on March 4th,
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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Jambs succeeded his grandfather in the honour; - he was sworn one of the privy-council to King Charles H. about I67O,
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Arthur Collins , Egerton Brydges 1812
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Jambs, thihd Earl Geaham, and third Duke of Monirose, born February 8th, I755.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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And Jambs, of Delphin’s Bourne or (as olders lay) of
Finnegans Wake 2006
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As I Suppose they will burn wood at the university, I would recommend an Article generally made use off here to prevent the Chimney from Smoking, and preserve the fire Place, they last almost as long as the House, and look very neat, 2 Jambs and a back come at 12 Dollars, we can make them at any time, to any Size, I can Send You a Sett immediatly, if You Should desirous of Seeing them. in Expection of An Answer I remain Yours Truly
Letters to and from Jefferson, 1819 [a machine-readable transcription] 1819
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Jambs Elusees, und dey do not see me ... yet dey are ver 'fond of me, und I might go to dine mit dem, und dey vould be ver' bleased to see me; und I might go to deir country-houses, but I vould much rader be mit mine friend Bons, because I kann see him venefer I like, und efery tay. "
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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T.RAX. PH, Jambs, one of ih% greatest political, though not one of the greatest poetical; writers (A the present age.
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: 1782
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If the Chimney. back be 2 Party wall, and the Wall be meafnred by itfelf, then yon mn ((meafare the Depth of the Jtwo Jaatbs, and the Length of the Brcafl for a Length, and the Height of the Story the Breadth, at the fkme Thicknefs your Jambs were of.
The Complete Measurer: Or, The Whole Art of Measuring. In Two Parts. The First Part Teaching ... 1775
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