overdraft
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o·ver·draft
/ ˈōvərˌdraft/
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n.
a deficit in a bank account caused by drawing more money than the account holds.
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Travel Etc: It's time to start a scrap in the playground Nothing compares to the Alps for sheer mountain enjoyment, says Stephen Goodwin. This summer, a massive eco-battle is being fought to keep it that way
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/5/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...pointed the Hollandia hut. Some 130 years ago, Sir Leslie Stephen, the father of Virginia Woolf, entitled his Alpine...The book remains a mountaineering classic. Among Sir Leslie's string of first ascents was the Schreckhorn, one...
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The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen. (2 vols.)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...correspondence Leslie Stephen conducted, as a Victorian...1906, two years after Stephen's death, his devoted...The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, but no serious effort...thirty-two. A son of Sir James Stephen, Undersecretary...
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Nourishing the curiosity: Leslie Stephen and the English Men of Letters series.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Fawcett (1885) and Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1895); not voluminous literary...disdain of both the project and Leslie Stephen's contributions from higher...the twentieth century. (2) Leslie Stephen's involvement in the...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Flash back: TALES FROM THE PAST.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 1/8/2005; 700+ words
; ...serious offences. The man happened to be Sir Leslie Stephen, brother of the celebrated Judge Stephen the man who sentenced Florence Maybrick to hang for allegedly poisoning her husband. Sir Leslie summoned officials from St George's Hall...
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Books: Letting the Woolf off the hook
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...happened? No writing, no books - inconceivable." Sir Leslie Stephen was a difficult father, dour and demanding, but...in the house of Laura, the autistic daughter of Leslie Stephen's first marriage. She was, in his view, a family...
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Best of British
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Englishman by another, the life of Sir Leslie Stephen by his friend F. W. Maitland...before his time, but he survived Stephen, that truly and splendidly eminent...one of them Virginia Woolf, Stephen personified that slightly demonic...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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New fiction.(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/10/2006; 700+ words
; ...pounds sterling]11.99) SIR LESLIE STEPHEN, faced with an increase in household...Park Gate to Wimbledon. On Sir Leslie's death, his four children...these pages is an entry in Sir Leslie's Dictionary of National Biography...
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Life lived on a higher level
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/31/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...accidentally prescient book title, Sir Leslie Stephen's paean to alpine mountaineering...take some beating. The polymath Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf and...called "Golden Age" enjoyed by Stephen to the Second World War, alpinism...
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ANNIVERSARIES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/22/1995; 634 words
; ...poet and diplomat, 1819; Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth...social reformer, 1845; Sir William Allan, painter...Corot, painter, 1875; Sir Charles Lyell, geologist...lieder composer, 1903; Sir Leslie Stephen, biographer, author and...
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THE FLAWED FEMINIST; Virginia Woolf - soon to be portrayed by Nicole Kidman - was a beautiful, tortured genius who became an icon of women's liberation. But only her husband could rescue her from the maelstrom of her madness...
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/11/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Virginia was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on January 25, 1882, into the...intellectual elite. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary Of National...carriage fell in love with her. SIR LESLIE'S brilliant children, Vanessa...
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Sir Leslie Stephen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Leslie Stephen The English historian, critic, and editor Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was one of the...is Sidney A. Burrell's essay, "Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)" in Herman Ausubel...
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Stephen, Sir Leslie
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832–1904), son of Sir J. Stephen and brother of Sir J. F. Stephen , was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he became tutor, having taken orders. From his family he inherited a strong tradition...
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Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen 1829-94, English jurist and journalist; brother of Sir Leslie Stephen. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge...Bibliography: See biography by his brother Leslie Stephen (1895, repr. 1972); H...
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Virginia Stephen Woolf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...critic, and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941) ranks as...Early Years and Marriage Virginia Stephen was born in London on Jan. 25, 1882. She was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, a famous scholar and agnostic...
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Virginia (Stephen) Woolf
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Virginia (Stephen) Woolf 1882-1941, English novelist and essayist; daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen . A successful innovator in the form of the novel, she is considered...
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