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Urquhart
[ ur-kert, -kahrt ]
noun
- Sir Thomas, 1611–60, Scottish author and translator.
Urquhart
/ ˈɜːkət /
noun
- UrquhartSir Thomas16111660MScottishWRITING: authorWRITING: translator Sir Thomas. 1611–60, Scottish author and translator of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel (1653; 1693)
Example Sentences
Urquhart, who is also a member of her local Buy Nothing groups, says that giving used gifts can be much more satisfying than buying new.
The day I talked to Urquhart, I gave away an agility ladder on my local Buy Nothing group that my husband bought to get in shape before our wedding, but had been sitting in our closet for a year.
Willimon felt that Frank Underwood as a name “felt Dickensian and more legitimately American” than Francis Urquhart.
“Nothing lasts forever,” Urquhart says to a framed picture of Maggie Thatcher.
Even more emphatically, Urquhart—with a roguish smile—turns her picture facedown on his desk.
And he hastened away to have a last word with Mrs. Craig-Urquhart, who was swimming languidly by.
Between ten and eleven, Urquhart had a cynical countenance, which implied that his faith in humanity was gone.
First, Urquhart was openly contemptuous of it, and there seemed a probability of its only being used as a missile.
A ring was immediately formed round Urquhart and Robbins, which I had the pleasure of breaking up.
Thus brought to bay, Jenkinson solemnly declared that he meant to make Urquhart an offer that very day.
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