Ex

Examples

• The feverish young inn-keeper and ex-engineer started like Satan at the touch of Ithuriel's spear. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The ex-butler had obtained a small freehold there likewise, which gave him a vote for the borough. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The ex-queen gives me Idris; Adrian is totally unfitted to succeed to the earldom, and that earldom in my hands becomes a kingdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But the haughty Ex-Queen thought as Octavius Caesar and Mark Antony, We could not stall together In the whole world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Countess of Windsor, Ex-Queen of England, returned from Germany. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Sedley still maintained his ascendency over the family of Mr. Clapp, his ex-clerk. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A vain concession; his demeanour quickly betrayed his secret to the quick eyes of the ex-queen. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Ex-cellent business! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Von vare fine orishinal of dis, von fine copee of dat, an dis ting, an oter ting, and I den vos pay agen: an ven I go in, dese ting are all exécrable! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• One of the farms which he held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was also an ex-Australian. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The ladies having withdrawn, and the two cousins being left together, Pitt, the ex-diplomatist, he came very communicative and friendly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He knew there would be people clamoring for the punishment of the ex-Confederate president, for high treason. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And ex--' But Twemlow, in his demolished state, cannot command the word, and trails off into '--actly so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The candles flared and guttered before her, and the wax ex-votos hung about the shrine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And Gerald was the God of the machine, Deus ex Machina. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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