Hugo
['hju:ɡəʊ]
Definition
(noun.) French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885).
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Examples
- We had arranged the evening before to ascend the Cathedral of Notre Dame, with Victor Hugo's noble romance for our guide. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, Ha! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Rinaldi was sitting on the bed with a copy of Hugo's English grammar. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- To this substance of energy and life, common in the minute plant cell and the animal cell, the German botanist, Hugo von Mohl, about fifty years ago gave the name protoplasm. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Hugo demanded a potion to make Zara adore him, and one to destroy Roderigo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The weakest part of Hugo's classification is that which deals with natural philosophy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Moreover, Hugo, like Bacon, insisted on the importance of not being narrowly utilitarian. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The servant takes Hugo aside to tell him something, and Hagar changes the cups for two others which are harmless. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Act third was the castle hall, and here Hagar appeared, having come to free the lovers and finish Hugo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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