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Maitland

[ meyt-luhnd ]

noun

  1. Frederic William, 1850–1906, English jurist and legal historian.


Maitland

1

/ ˈmeɪtlənd /

noun

  1. a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: industrial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 53 470 (2001)


Maitland

2

/ ˈmeɪtlənd /

noun

  1. MaitlandFrederic William18501906MEnglishHISTORY: historian Frederic William. 1850–1906, English legal historian

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Maitland returned from Europe and told her mother about finding Roland.

The following engraving, after a sketch by Maitland, shows a gallery wider and more rudely excavated.

Sometimes the sarcophagus was placed behind a perforated slab of marble, as shown in the following example, given by Maitland.

The following epitaph given by Maitland commemorates a martyrdom of this reign.

Thus, as Dr. Maitland remarks, in painting sight superseded faith, and in sculpture touch superseded sight.

"It couldna ha'e been worse," said Jenny Maitland sorrowfully to her next door neighbor.

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