Athel
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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According to Irvine police officials, on Aug. 3, a woman baited Nicholas Alistair Neaimi-Pour into her car on Athel Avenue, a well-groomed street lined with single-family homes.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2023
"Athel" Spilhaus, as his Minneapolis friends call him, was born in South Africa, the grandson of the Scottish founder of the country's educational system and son of Premier Jan Smuts's Portuguese-German trade commissioner.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mr. Athel, though, as we have seen, anxious to indulge himself in humane regard whenever social regulations permitted, was the last man to suffer in his household serious innovations upon traditional propriety.
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
Wilfrid Athel went down invalided a few days after the beginning of Trinity term.
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
Mr. Athel and his sister both observed her real preoccupation, as if of trouble, and mentally attributed it to something that had passed during the afternoon's ride.
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
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