Dublin
['dʌblin]
Definition
(noun.) capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic.
Typed by Jaime--From WordNet
Examples
- He lectured bef ore the Dublin Society in 1810, and again in the following year; on the occasion of his second visit receiving the degree of LL . Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The increasing facilities of communication enhanced this tendency and depleted Dublin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ye should see the kenal boats between Dublin and Ballinasloe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- One night, very late, near Dublin, he met two of his brothers just as they had got into a violent row with three raw-boned, half naked Irish pats. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His father, his grandfather, his uncle, and two brothers had all taught elocution in one form or another at the Universities of Edinburgh, Dublin, and London. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The idea of comparing the market at Bruges with those of Dublin, although she had suggested it herself, caused immense scorn and derision on her part. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Erard particularly made many improvements in that and in the nineteenth century in the piano, its hammers and keys, and Southwell of Dublin in the dampers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. Plato. The Republic.
- The Dublin Society invited him to lecture in that city, and his course at once attracted the greatest attention. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My father easily acceded to my desire; and, after having taken leave of Mr. Kirwin, we hastened to Dublin. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Dublin student ways won't do here. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The first attempts in this art were by Dixon, of Jersey City, and Lewis, of Dublin, in 1841, who used resins. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She had had a season in Dublin, and who knows how many in Cork, Killarney, and Mallow? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Its fashionable life became more and more official, centring upon the Lord Lieutenant in Dublin Castle; its chief social occasion is now a horse show. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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