Horace
['hɔrəs]
Definition
(noun.) Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC).
Editor: Michel--From WordNet
Examples
- Murder by a Madman, and the contents of the paper showed that Mr. Horace Harker had got his account into print after all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If you are going back to Pitt Street, you might see Mr. Horace Harker. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Horace Mann, one of the legal counsel for the defendants in that case. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- True, said I, which, I suppose, accounts for her preference of Horace Beckford. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But I am sure that it will interest Mr. Horace Harker and the subscribers of the Central Press Syndicate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This was the company of Captain Horace Brooks, of the artillery, acting as infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His chief reliance was on education and improved methods of husbandry, but he resembled Horace Greeley in h is hospitality to any project for the public welfare. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But what is that in Horace? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Macbeth, and (2) Miss Macbeths; Viscount Paddington, Sir Horace Fogey, Hon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- HUXTABLE'S SIDELIGHTS ON HORACE may possibly recall my name to your memories. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Night editors, including Horace Greeley, and Henry Raymond, of the New York Times, took their midnight lunch there. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Horace Harker is a customer of ours. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Brummell's pride appeared to take alarm as he inquired if Julia really admired Horace. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Horace, for instance, said things which would shock you, my dear Mrs Dengelton. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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