Oscar
['ɒskə]
Examples
- Chief among the bicycle manufacturers who took up the making of the motor-paced tandem was Oscar Hedstrom, a racer with many notable victories to his credit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In road tests under every conceivable condition, this first motorcycle of Oscar Hedstrom’s displayed a perfection of mechanical operation which had to that time never been approached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The credit of the execution is due to Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble, who spent some days in doing the moulding. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The damned wantlessness of the poor, about which Oscar Wilde complained, the cry for a little more fodder, gives way to an insistence upon the chance to be interested in life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Oscar Hedstrom retired to a little mechanical laboratory in Middletown, Conn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By reason of the successful performance of his first motorcycle, Oscar Hedstrom is given the credit, in many quarters, for producing the first motorcycle of practicable construction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If disobedience is man's original virtue, as Oscar Wilde suggested, it was an extraordinarily virtuous century. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Oscar Wilde once remarked that only superficial people disliked the superficial. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typed by Josephine