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Intemational Relations and graduated with "laureat" honors.
Robinson, Paul K. 1977
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He asks me if I have heard of _my_ 'laureat' at Paris [74], -- somebody who has written 'a most sanguinary Epître 'against me; but whether in
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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Nobel laureat Nadine Gordimer objects to the new law.
'Just who are the attackers this bill is meant to protect us from?' 2011
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Most of the domestick offices were, I believe, hereditary; and probably the laureat of a clan was always the son of the last laureat.
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Skelton, poet-laureat to Henry VIII. lamented his death in some elegiac lines.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 Various
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To conclude: What if our government had a poet-laureat here, as in England?
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And with this fine conceit to inspire them, his poets - laureat composed some glorious old saltwater odes, enough to make your very soul sing to hear them.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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He seems subsequently to have removed to Ireland, where his son Nahum, the laureat, was born.
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I would be prose laureat, or professor of the spasmodic, or something, in no time.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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Some years ago the present laureat (Southey) undertook the office of editing his works, for the benefit of his sister, Mrs. Newton.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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