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Murray   /mˈəri/   Listen
Murray

noun
1.
British classical scholar (born in Australia) who advocated the League of Nations and the United Nations (1866-1957).  Synonyms: George Gilbert Aime Murphy, Gilbert Murray.
2.
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915).  Synonyms: James Augustus Henry Murray, James Augustus Murray, James Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir James Augustus Murray, Sir James Murray.
3.
A southeast Australian river; flows westward and then south into the Indian Ocean at Adelaide.  Synonym: Murray River.



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... Soldiers' Barracks [at extreme right]. G, Ship Yards [lower right hand corner]. H, City Hall [Broad and Wall streets, site of present Sub-Treasury building]. I, Exchange. J, K, Jail and Workhouse [both situated on the "intended square or common," now City Hall Square]. L, College [Church and Murray streets; this was King's College, now Columbia University]. M, Trinity Church [the present Trinity was built on 1839-46, though it stands on the site of the old church built in 1696]. N, St. George's Chapel. O, St. Paul's Chapel [built in 1756, the ...
— The Greatest Highway in the World • Anonymous

... "The Builder" Portfolio of English Cathedrals. Murray's Handbooks to the Cathedrals. S.P.C.K. Illustrated Notes on English Church History. Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. Notes on the Cathedrals. "Our English Minsters." ...
— Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them • Sidney Heath

... left bank of the Moselle is immaterial except to the tiresomely precise or to those who pin their faith to guide-books and such shallow teachers. There is a more valuable lesson to be learnt of the place than that of its exact situation; and no Baedeker or Murray can help you to appreciate Treves as quiet communings with your own intelligence will. If it so happens that you have none to commune with, then ...
— A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes • Harriet Julia Jephson

... Lievens, Lyndhursts, Sir J. Murray, and others at dinner, at the Esterhazy's. The King has not yet sent back the commission to pass ...
— A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II • Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough)

... to reckon with him as Prime-minister before very long. The stately form of Pitt was, indeed, already throwing a gigantic shadow before it. Henry Fox, too, was beginning to show himself an administrator and a debater, and, it may be added, a political intriguer, of all but consummate ability. Murray was beginning to be recognized as a great advocate, and even a great man. Lyttelton was still making brilliant way in politics, but was even yet hovering somewhat uncertain between politics and literature, destined in the end to become another illustration of the career marred for both fields ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy


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