Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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April is the sovereign of the year. At any rate, its the raining' month...
...stated that the Porte has sent a circular to the powers, protesting against the dispatch of foreign men-of-war to Egypt as unjustifiable, and declaring, moreover, that, were such action necessary, it would devolve upon the Sultan as sovereign of Egypt...
...bursary in one of our large colleges. Several men are transacting business with the Bursar. Enter a Freshman, cap on head: after taking a tour of inspection round the room, he in turn comes up to the Bursar's table, and in a loud voice demands "Change for a sovereign, and a shilling in 3d. bits." Curtain falls. - Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal...