Morton
['mɔ:tən]
Definition
(noun.) United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941).
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Examples
- I shall not stay long at Morton, now that my father is dead, and that I am my own master. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This latter place he reached on the 6th or 7th, Brandon on the 8th, and Morton on the 9th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I will take my oath he never dropt a syllable of being tired of her, or of wishing to marry Miss Morton, or any thing like it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Do you think you shall like Morton? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The next day I left Marsh End for Morton. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Morton et fils, d'Amerique. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Morton, a dentist, of Boston, first applied it as an an?sthetic Oct. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You will not stay at Morton long: no, no! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Why, Morton or Johnson, the Oxford fliers, could romp round him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Morton, when I came to it two years ago, had no school: the children of the poor were excluded from every hope of progress. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Yes, Mr. Holmes, Cyril Morton, an electrical engineer, and we hope to be married at the end of the summer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I now closed Morton school, taking care that the parting should not be barren on my side. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- St. John made you schoolmistress of Morton before he knew you were his cousin? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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