Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A detailed list of the winners in any competition for prizes, as a school examination or a flower-show.
- noun Nautical, a return of all the persons on board entitled to receive prize-money at the time a capture is made.
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Examples
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Anticipating a year ahead of prize-list reading to which I'm addicted and won't be able to resist, I thought I should really deal with some of last year's unread books before I gather in any more.
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Anticipating a year ahead of prize-list reading to which I'm addicted and won't be able to resist, I thought I should really deal with some of last year's unread books before I gather in any more.
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Anticipating a year ahead of prize-list reading to which I'm addicted and won't be able to resist, I thought I should really deal with some of last year's unread books before I gather in any more.
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But this does not cover the difficulty, as the prize-money is of secondary importance to the majority of exhibitors -- being first on the prize-list is their main ambition; but, I believe, it is all that rules can reach.
Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie
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If the right man be put in the right place, there will seldom be cause to complain of overfed useless breeding animals gaining the prizes; but if ignorant forward men are appointed, you are certain to see the fattest animals at the top of the prize-list.
Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie
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Mr Geddes stood at the top of the Highland Society's prize-list at the Inverness show as the owner of the best aged shorthorned bull, and was a winner along with Mr John M'Kessock in the class of shorthorned heifers.
Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie
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Oh dear no; your prize-list is most imposing; the givers may well plume themselves on their munificence, and the competitors be monstrous keen on winning.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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The minister, on his return home, and glancing at the local newspaper, saw the report of the match, and the name of his own man in the prize-list.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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Your eye happens to fall a day or two afterwards upon the prize-list advertised in the newspapers, and you discover that (curiously) the most distinguished and clever boy in that particular school is rewarded with the seventh prize.
The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862
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Here he had rushed down to the old Rector, his childless uncle, with the copy of the prize-list when his brother took his first-class.
The Perpetual Curate 1862
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