"Who's been telling the mater these stories about me?" he asked.

We find Sir Thomas repeatedly a commissioner for visiting the University of Aberdeen, and in his later years he endowed three bursaries at King's College, his own alma mater.

"Elocusyon," says Hawes, "exorneth the mater.

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At the age of eighteen, however, he left his alma mater, and went to London to study law.

The subtle Eliot, looking over the terrace wall, observed her and thought, "The mater's jolly pleased with herself.

"May I have two words with you before you join the mater?"