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n. - A city in the western Netherlands.

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  • Her mother came of a clerical Walloon family, and was the divorced wife of a professor in Leyden University.
  • The old folks, who could not cross the Atlantic, remained in Leyden until they died and some were buried in St. Pancras and St. Peter's
  • THE middle of August found the conditions in Leyden in no way improved but rather the worse, being just so many weeks nearer starvation.
  • It was an electrical bottle called the Leyden jar.
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