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- noun a city in the western Netherlands; residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620
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Examples
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John Dunham was living happily with his wife and children in Leyden while the Pilgrim John Goodman was living out his short and miserable life in Plymouth.
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Her mother came of a clerical Walloon family, and was the divorced wife of a professor in Leyden University.
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born on November 23, 1837 in Leyden, The Netherlands, the son of Jacobus van der Waals and Elisabeth van den Burg.
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Society (1898), Académie des Sciences, Paris (1905). van 't Hoff was a lover of nature; as a student in Leyden he frequently took part in the botanical excursions, and later in
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Her mother came of a clerical Walloon family, and was the divorced wife of a professor in Leyden University.
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Her mother came of a clerical Walloon family, and was the divorced wife of a professor in Leyden University.
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Her mother came of a clerical Walloon family, and was the divorced wife of a professor in Leyden University.
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From this the Prince beguiled him into telling about how he had made expeditions with messages through the Spanish army, and how his sister was helping care for the sick and plague-stricken in Leyden, and many details about the condition of the city.
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Having spent weeks in Leyden, during a dozen visits, I can testify to the general historic accuracy, as well as to the throbbing human interest of this story of Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons.
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THE middle of August found the conditions in Leyden in no way improved but rather the worse, being just so many weeks nearer starvation.
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