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Percival

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Percival, Perceval [ˈpɜːsɪvəl]
n
(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) (in Arthurian legend) a knight in King Arthur's court German equivalent Parzival


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Percival Delaney, let us say, yes, let us say Percival Delaney, was not unknown at Oxford once upon a time--not for scholarship, I am frank to admit; but the gay young dogs of that day, if any be yet alive, would remember him--"
"I didn't mean that either," said Babcock, "I was only afraid that I might have seemed yesterday not to remember--not to consider; well, I think I will write to Percival about it.
For instance he did not know that Del Mar's real name was Percival Grunsky, and that at grammar school he had been called "Brownie" by the girls and "Blackie" by the boys.
 
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