Founders
[faʊndəz]
Examples
- My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There follows a history of the fathers and founders of the Hebrew nation, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So that among the founders of our science, next to the name of the great French Philosopher, Lavoisier, will stand in future ages the name of John Dalton, of Manchester. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By these and other experiments this doubting disciple confi rmed Hutton's theory, and became one of the great founders of experim ental geology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Plato, Zeno, Epicurus, Pythagoras--all founders of clubs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The volume of _Plutarch's Lives_ which I possessed, contained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Doubtless the founders of our government, the majority of them at least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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