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During his ushership Mr. Burley had scraped acquaintance with the editor of the county newspaper, and given him some capital political articles; for Burley was like Parr and Porson, a notable politician.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

These considerations had clenched the bookbinder's resolution, and this was now the third day of Jean's ushership.

From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by France, Anatole