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lyceum

[lahy-see-uhm] / laɪˈsi əm /




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With the facile ease of a lyceum lecturer, Evita Per�n delved into the ancient authors.

From Time Magazine Archive

He won his baccalaureate, and for four years taught history at a lyceum in Hanoi.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harper of New York, who gave in his remarks a delightful pen portrait of Doctor Holmes, the lyceum lecturer, which we have elsewhere quoted.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.

Resigning his commission in 1818, he was successively engaged as teacher in the gymnasium at Augsburg and in the progymnasium and lyceum at Landshut.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

On leaving the lyceum Gorchakov entered the foreign office under Count Nesselrode.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various




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