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She had been qualifying as a hospital nurse, with the view of joining Miss Nightingale's staff at Scutari.

From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft

His eldest son, an estimable young man, who had worked at Christ Church as if he had been qualifying for a statesman or a don, died of typhoid-fever before the birth of his boy.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Events had been qualifying Cromwell more and more for the task.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David