Roberts
['rɔbəts]
Definition
(noun.) a Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722).
(noun.) United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957).
(noun.) United States evangelist (born 1918).
(noun.) United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943).
Edited by Diana--From WordNet
Examples
- When I came back to the depot, Mr. Roberts was there, and insisted on carrying my satchel for me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Lord Roberts also made good use of it in his South African campaign against the Boers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- We had the private car of Mr. Roberts, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These were supplied in England from 1811 to 1840 by the genius of Bramah, Clement, Fox, Roberts, Rennie, Whitworth, Fletcher, and a few others. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thus Roberts, in 1852, proposed to cement the neck of the glass globe into a metallic cup, and to provide it with a tube or stop-cock for exhaustion by means of a hand-pump. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On one occasion poor Captain Roberts, who happened to come in later than FitzClarence, got nothing but bubble-and-squeak in the dog-days. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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