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"About the hospital, Mr. Harding?" began Mr. Slope, speaking of it as the head of a college at Cambridge might speak of some sizarship which had to be disposed of.

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony

Southey and William Wilberforce became interested in him and procured for him a sizarship at St. John's College, Cambridge.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

At last he won a mathematical sizarship in Trinity College.

From The Red Hand of Ulster by Birmingham, George A.

Longford, the son of a poor clergyman, he was educated at various country schools until, in 1744, he secured a sizarship in Trinity College, Dublin.

From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.

After the sizarship he won a scholarship, and then, at an unusually early age, a fellowship.

From The Red Hand of Ulster by Birmingham, George A.