Wilberforce
['wilbəfɔ:s]
Examples
- I want to take up Wilberforce's and Romilly's line, you know, and work at Negro Emancipation, Criminal Law--that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And the trader leaned back in his chair, and folded his arm, with an air of virtuous decision, apparently considering himself a second Wilberforce. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I knew Wilberforce in his best days. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The surface condenser was used by Hall in 1838 on the steamship Wilberforce, and Sickels in 1841 invented the drop cut-off. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Do you know Wilberforce? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There are a perfect host of Clarksons and Wilberforces* risen up among us on that subject, most edifying to hear and behold. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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