Moderations
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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In due course the gardener’s boy took a first class in Classical Moderations, and a first class also in Classical Greats.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
Some Lapps advance to a kind of mystic Moderations, and the great sorcerers attain to Final Schools, and are Bachelors in Black Arts.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
Almost immediately after reaching college I was "in the Schools" for "Moderations," but did very well, as I had employed every available moment in preparing myself.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
In 1862 he took a 1st class in Classical Moderations, and 1st Literæ Humaniores, 1864.
From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway
On November 1st he won a Boulter scholarship, and at the end of the following year obtained First Class Honours in Mathematics and a Second in Classical Moderations.
From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson
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