Firbank
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The three great gigglers: Proust, Firbank and Chekhov.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2020
I currently await delivery of a larky 1930s novel called “Frolic Wind” by one Richard Oke, whom contemporary reviewers likened to Ronald Firbank and Evelyn Waugh.
From Washington Post • Nov. 6, 2019
Connolly’s purpose was to make a lasting and decisive evaluation of his gifted contemporaries, writers such as Auden, Joyce, Proust, Firbank, Woolf, Huxley, Hemingway, Faulkner and Waugh.
From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2016
Marx in a punt, Firbank aloud round the gas-ring.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2014
He had been at Firbank also, and he had remembered enough of the sermon there to repeat some of the preacher's words jestingly to his face.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
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