Wilcox
['wilkɔks]
Examples
- To return to the Army of the Potomac: The 2d corps commenced crossing the James River on the morning of the 14th by ferry-boats at Wilcox's Landing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The firm of Babcock & Wilcox gave aid on the boilers, Armington & Sims undertook the engines, but everything else was abnormal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The advance corps reached James River, at Wilcox's Landing and Charles City Court House, on the night of the 13th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Gibbs invented and covered in several patents from 1856 to 1860 the single-thread rotating hook, which was embodied in the Wilcox & Gibbs machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- While I lodged in _Little Britain_, I made acquaintance with one Wilcox, a bookseller, whose shop was next door. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I cannot bear to keep good old Wilcox waiting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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