Stuart
[stjuət]
Definition
(noun.) the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714.
(noun.) a member of the royal family that ruled Scotland and England.
(noun.) United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828).
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Examples
- During the Tudor and Stuart reigns a fashionable gift at christenings was the apostle, so called because at the end of the handle was the figure of an apostle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Next to McClernand came Prentiss with a raw division, and on the extreme left, Stuart with one brigade of Sherman's division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sheridan destroyed the railroad and more supplies at Ashland, and on the 11th arrived in Stuart's front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sherman went in person on the 16th, taking with him Stuart's division of the 15th corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here is Schiller's Mary Stuart and a tutor who loves to teach. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Hence the schools are better adapted, as John Stuart Mill said, to make disciples than inquirers. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Before night Stuart, commanding the Confederate cavalry, came on to the rear of his command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Stuart describes his spouts as appearing no bigger than a mast, and sometimes less; but they were seen at a league and a half distance. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- At length, one day, came a gentleman named Stuart. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- According to John Stuart Mill, It appears . Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Captain Stuart was very kind to me; he had a splendid plantation, and took me to it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Nor any Jeb Stuart either. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When Dr. Stuart's spouts were full charged, that is, when the whirling pipe of air was filled between _a a a a_ and _b b b b_, fig. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Now Phil Sheridan was an intelligent man and so was Jeb Stuart. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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