Morrison
['mɔrisn]
Definition
(noun.) United States writer whose novels describe the lives of African-Americans (born in 1931).
(noun.) United States rock singer (1943-1971).
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Examples
- She then called for Miss Morrison, a young lady who lives in the next villa, and the two went off together to their meeting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But Miss Morrison had been with her during the whole of that hour and a half. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It lasted forty minutes, and at a quarter-past nine Mrs. Barclay returned home, having left Miss Morrison at her door as she passed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Miss Morrison is a little ethereal slip of a girl, with timid eyes and blond hair, but I found her by no means wanting in shrewdness and common-sense. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In this assault Colonel William Morrison fell badly wounded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Charles Morrison in 1753, in the _Scots Magazine_, proposed a telegraph system of insulated wires with a corresponding number of characters to be signalled between two stations. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Of course, we do not yet know what the relations may have been between Alec Cunningham, William Kirwan, and Annie Morrison. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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