Lloyd
[lɔɪd]
Definition
(noun.) United States comic actor in silent films; he used physical danger as a source of comedy (1893-1971).
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Examples
- He never did anything else in connection with Lloyd's that I could find out, except come back again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, owned by the North German Lloyd Company, and built in 1897, is shown in Fig. 114, and for three years held the record as the fastest steamship afloat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the course of the morning Mr. Lloyd came again. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Adaptation, Mr. Lloyd George admitted, there had to be. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Clemenceau, nothing in America stronger and wiser than President Wilson, and nothing in Britain to steady the Keltic traits of Mr. Lloyd George. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was organized in 1897, and made agreements to erect coast stations for the Italian, Canadian, and Newfoundland governments, and for Lloyd’s. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Its first use was as a symbol in the code by which vessels were graded in the register of shipping kept by Lloyd’s, the originators of marine insurance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Little Lloyd George of the air! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In Great Britain, for instance, Mr. Lloyd George was particularly insistent upon his intention to make the after-war Britain a land fit for heroes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is interesting to note such a speech as that of Mr. Lloyd George, the British premier, delivered on Saturday, December 6th, 1919. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I saw Mr. Lloyd smile and frown at the same time. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr. Lloyd a second time produced his snuff-box. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Go by train to Venice, I suppose, and take an Austrian Lloyd steamer from there, or leave Marseilles by the French packet which goes to Athens. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How far is it to the Lloyds' Agency? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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