How To Use Etonian In A Sentence
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NEWARK Harness racing driver Eric Ledford pleaded guilty to drug possession in a plea bargain Wednesday which might allow the former Hambletonian winner to return to work in a couple of months, his attorney said.
Driver Ledford, three others plead guilty in horse drug case
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People can succumb very easily to these Etonian attitudes.
Times, Sunday Times
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For some years after 1951 the venue for the race was Goshen, New York, where the sport established the Hambletonian Racing Museum and Hall of Fame.
American Connections
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Leading candidates include Sir George Young, a reforming old Etonian; Sir Alan Beith, the veteran Liberal Democrat; and John Bercow, the independent-minded Tory.
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Johnston's love of "theatricals" is well-represented, and if some of his Old Etonian ribaldry sounded better than it reads 20 years on, it is forgivable because the opportunity to indulge his passions is executed engagingly and with such enthusiasm.
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Murless had started his career outside at Thirsk in Yorkshire where in 1612 on the Hambleton Hills the first horse races had taken place under the patronage of King James I. In 1794 one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time was named after the place: “Hambletonian.”
American Connections
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An Old Etonian from a military family, a "rugger" fan and a Marylebone Cricket Club member, he ought to be ensconced in a Mayfair private members 'club or doing something in private banking - not designing ostentatious, colourful jewellery fetching up to hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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The Democratic Alliance has called for Capetonians to unite against what it says is an "iniquitous" plan to turn key sections of the N1 and
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Maybe the old Etonian will bring his father round to seeing the value of theatre that is radical, critical, foul-mouthed and rude.
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You have to remember that the whole dismal package has always been tied together with an Old Etonian tie.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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Some Old Etonians have even claimed that they could identify him as one of their own from his writings, a hard case to credit unless Eton was stuffed with budding critics of saucy postcards and analysts of dirigiste economics.
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Richard Hanley, manager of Hambletonian Partners LP, a hedge fund in New York, taught a course called "Applied Value Investing" at Columbia Business School as an adjunct professor in 2002.
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He burst into one of his high-pitched uncontrollable Etonian arpeggios of laughter.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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The Old Etonian is a scion of a stockbroking family.
Times, Sunday Times
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His is a prose that almost palpably exudes probity and decency (a very Orwellian word, that), while his political trajectory - from disaffected Etonian schoolboy, to disaffected imperial policeman, to disaffected dallier in the pays-bas of the Depression, to convinced socialist warrior, to disaffected socialist and anti-communist whistle-blower - also speaks to us of a probity and decency, which all too often seems absent from our mercenary, venal and debauched age.
Jura Duty
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The Tories have also put on their blinkers, choosing fewer candidates from working-class origin and fewer Etonians.
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For a tribe who are loathed so much, Etonians do rather well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Johnston's love of "theatricals" is well-represented, and if some of his Old Etonian ribaldry sounded better than it reads 20 years on, it is forgivable because the opportunity to indulge his passions is executed engagingly and with such enthusiasm.
The Best Views from the Boundary – Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews
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At the college balls held each summer, the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would, in all probability, be the daughter of a baron or a duke, wrapped in the best silk.
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The Labour left hate the Upper Classes and an old Etonian, sitting for the seat of Henley with a middle name of de Pfeffel who looks and sounds like a toff will be a target for all the bile they can produce.
Boris "bigged up" by the BBC
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It is a sound reaching back to the farthest recesses of his throat, to an Etonian schooling in the late 1940s, and to classroom discipline as a Bo'ness Academy dominie in the late 1950s.
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Frantically pointing at the TV screen, which displayed a route map, the terrified teen noted we were over France and told the air hostess she needed to inform the captain that we could safely divert and make an emergency landing in some area of the French countryside that he seemed to know very well as he'd holidayed there the previous summer with some Etonian chums.
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For a tribe who are loathed so much, Etonians do rather well.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems to me that Gordon Brown just hid his distaste for the old-Etonian better than his backbench colleague.
Gordon Brown and the suspension of normal politics
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It was none other than Macmillan himself who, in a remark criticized for its Jew-consciousness, drawlingly observed that her Cabinet had “more old Estonians than old Etonians.”
The Eton Empire
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In 1849 the name was used again for the stallion that went on to become the foundation sire of all great American trotters and then in turn gave its name to the annual American harness-racing event: “The Hambletonian.”
American Connections
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The Tories have also put on their blinkers, choosing fewer candidates from working-class origin and fewer Etonians.
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He was eighty years old and in a coma when his horse won the Hambletonian Stakes, the supreme prize.
Celebrities
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People can succumb very easily to these Etonian attitudes.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, the distances she needs to bridge are far greater than Orwell's – Wigan miners weren't to old Etonians as hill tribes are to metropolitan Indians – and her writing is more prolix and melodramatic.
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Capetonians can support the talented young matriculant by attending her free show and by voting for her online.
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I overheard from a bunch of those snot-nosed Etonians a while ago that there's this party that pervert was holding in his family's mansion.
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South Africa's This Day daily in a cutting editorial Thursday highlighted the privileged backgrounds of the alleged key players, describing Thatcher as an "old Harrovian," Mann as an "old Etonian well connected to the Conservative Party.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Blair's greatest successes. Class matters less: the fact that the Tories are gaining popularity led by an Old Etonian is, strangely, a sign of progress.
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Moving seamlessly on, and needing his full measure of Etonian nonchalance to avoid embarrassment, the coalitional prime minister spoke of his grave fear that AV would result in more coalitions.
AV referendum: The Dave and Dr No show | Editorial
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Glidemaster, trained by Blair Burgess, won the Hambletonian in stakes-record time and added the Kentucky Futurity and Yonkers Trot to sweep the Triple Crown.
Glidemaster chosen 2006 harness racing Horse of the Year
