Totleben

[ tawt-le-ben, tot-leb-uhn; Russian tuht-lye-byin ]

noun

1. Franz E·du·ard I·va·no·vich [frahnts, e-doo-, ahrt, ee-, vah, -n, uh, -vyich], Count, 1818–84, Russian military engineer and general.

Example Sentences

Way back in the mid 1980s, I was in high school and Moore, with artists John Totleben and Steve Bissette, were in the middle of their classic run on Swamp Thing.

From The Guardian

Even Bissette and Totleben’s rendering of the title puts the reader on notice; The Anatomy Lesson is written in bulbous, but still gracefully curved script upon the torso of a human figure, arms and legs and head cut off on a dissecting table.

From The Guardian

The series’ editor, Karen Berger, told me it was Totleben, who had been wowed by Sting’s portrayal of a possibly demonic con-man in the 1982 film Brimstone and Treacle.

From Slate

Totleben, the master of the Vilna province, who had refused to countenance the perpetration of pogroms in Lithuania, nevertheless agreed that the Jews should henceforth be forbidden to settle in the villages, though he was generous enough to add that he found it somewhat inconvenient "to rob the whole Jewish nation of the possibility of earning a livelihood by its labor."

From Project Gutenberg