Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 26 | Yes, there would be the View more quotes about round">round of teas and the cocktail and supper invitations. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 23 | This outcome struck me as being a pleasant if perplexing state of affairs. |
| 1 | 24 | I admit I was annoyed by the suspicion that I had been given the appointment largely on the grounds that I would be faculty exotica. |
| 1 | 25 | Surely I had no publications, and I am confident there must have been several candidates from American universities whose credentials and capacities would have far outshone my own, except for the desiderated British accent. |
| 1 | 26 | Yes, there would be the round of teas and the cocktail and supper invitations. |
| 1 | 27 | I liked America very much, though I was quite busy the first semester, smashing through numerous texts in an undignified manner, attempting to commit enough English history to memory to keep at least a reign or so ahead of my students. |
| 1 | 28 | I discovered, to my dismay, that being English does not automatically qualify one as an authority on English history. |
| 1 | 29 | Fortunately, my departmental chairman, a gentle, bespectacled man, whose speciality was American economic history, knew even less than I did, or, at least, was considerate enough to allow me to believe so. |
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This outcome struck me as being a pleasant if perplexing state of affairs.
I admit I was annoyed by the suspicion that I had been given the appointment largely on the grounds that I would be faculty exotica.
Surely I had no publications, and I am confident there must have been several candidates from American universities whose credentials and capacities would have far outshone my own, except for the desiderated British accent.
Yes, there would be the round of teas and the cocktail and supper invitations.
I liked America very much, though I was quite busy the first semester, smashing through numerous texts in an undignified manner, attempting to commit enough English history to memory to keep at least a reign or so ahead of my students.
I discovered, to my dismay, that being English does not automatically qualify one as an authority on English history.
Fortunately, my departmental chairman, a gentle, bespectacled man, whose speciality was American economic history, knew even less than I did, or, at least, was considerate enough to allow me to believe so.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)