Osbert
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The bird was previously known to science from just two specimens first collected by naturalist Andrew Goldie and named and described by British ornithologists Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1883.
From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2022
Ms Sitwell said her great-uncle, the writer Osbert Sitwell, bought the drawing in 1936, and no-one had known where it was until last year.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2021
In the middle of all of them, “the bethroned, center-stage figures of Osbert and Edith Sitwell,” Blake Morrison wrote years later in a scathing essay called “Queen Edith.”
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2019
Owen’s friends included gay figures such as Harold Monro of the Poetry Bookshop, and Osbert Sitwell.
From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2018
According to Osbert you could try to send e-mails but they’d bounce back at you for no particular reason and the same with text messages.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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