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Urquhart

[ ur-kert, -kahrt ]

noun

  1. Sir Thomas, 1611–60, Scottish author and translator.


Urquhart

/ ˈɜːkət /

noun

  1. UrquhartSir Thomas16111660MScottishWRITING: authorWRITING: translator Sir Thomas. 1611–60, Scottish author and translator of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel (1653; 1693)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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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.

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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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