Gordon
['gɔ:dən] or ['gɔrdən]
Examples
- You were thinking that if the portrait were framed it would just cover that bare space and correspond with Gordon's picture over there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And you remember Emma Gordon, my dear, ath wath a'motht a mother to you? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She stopped in her wild crying, a little detached herself from Emma Gordon, and turned her face full upon her patron. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- De Long, who had an earnest and protracted conversation with Edison over the Arctic expedition he was undertaking with the aid of Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Gordon, Brunton and Gurney attempted a curious and amusing steam carriage, resembling a horse in action--having jointed legs and feet, but this animal was not successful. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The night of the 24th of March was fixed upon for this assault, and General Gordon was assigned to the execution of the plan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Edison himself describes various instances in which the demand for isolated plants had to be met: One night at '65,' he says, James Gordon Bennett came in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Emma Gordon, in whothe lap you're a lying at prethent, would be a mother to you, and Joth'phine would be a thithter to you. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Here Barringer's, formerly Gordon's, brigade of rebel cavalry was encountered, but it was speedily driven away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Among other celebrated inventors of printing presses in the United States were Isaac Adams, Taylor, Gordon, Potter, Hawkins, Bullock, Cottrell, Campbell, Babcock, and Firm. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Gordon, at the time a member of the Senate. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The day that Gordon was making dispositions for this attack (24th of March) I issued my orders for the movement to commence on the 29th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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