Bartholomew
[bɑ:'θɔləmju:]
Examples
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A cadet of the house was an officer of the great Duke and distinguished in the famous Saint Bartholomew conspiracy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For myself, I immediately got into work at Palmer's, a famous printing-house in Bartholomew Close, where I continued near a year. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Bartholomew Irons--to the disappointment of the irregular prelate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We were set down at St. Bartholomew's, and entered the wretched precincts of the house of disease. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Despairing of Spanish help, Columbus sent his brother Bartholomew to Henry VII of England, but the adventure did not attract that canny monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At length, as I was looking out at the iron gate of Bartholomew Close into Little Britain, I saw Mr. Jaggers coming across the road towards me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Been detained at Bartholomew's,' replied Hopkins. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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