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HORACE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Context examples:
Mr. Horace Harker is a customer of ours.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Well, the Reverend Horace did,” said Traddles.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If you are going back to Pitt Street, you might see Mr. Horace Harker.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am glad you think so, Copperfield, rejoined Traddles, because, without any imputation on the Reverend Horace, I do think parents, and brothers, and so forth, are sometimes rather selfish in such cases.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When we have found who he is and who his associates are, we should have a good start in learning what he was doing in Pitt Street last night, and who it was who met him and killed him on the doorstep of Mr. Horace Harker.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You see, my dear Copperfield, falling again into the low confidential tone, after I had delivered my argument in DOE dem. JIPES versus WIGZIELL, which did me great service with the profession, I went down into Devonshire, and had some serious conversation in private with the Reverend Horace.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I then proposed to the Reverend Horace—who is a most excellent clergyman, Copperfield, and ought to be a Bishop; or at least ought to have enough to live upon, without pinching himself—that if I could turn the corner, say of two hundred and fifty pounds, in one year; and could see my way pretty clearly to that, or something better, next year; and could plainly furnish a little place like this, besides; then, and in that case, Sophy and I should be united.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Well! I also pointed out, that my most earnest desire was, to be useful to the family; and that if I got on in the world, and anything should happen to him—I refer to the Reverend Horace— “I understand,” said I. —Or to Mrs. Crewler—it would be the utmost gratification of my wishes, to be a parent to the girls.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There's the Reverend Horace promoted to that living at four hundred and fifty pounds a year; there are our two boys receiving the very best education, and distinguishing themselves as steady scholars and good fellows; there are three of the girls married very comfortably; there are three more living with us; there are three more keeping house for the Reverend Horace since Mrs. Crewler's decease; and all of them happy.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'Donavan and Lester Meyer and George Duckweed and Francis Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now, and Henry L. Palmetto who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
