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LLOYD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States comic actor in silent films; he used physical danger as a source of comedy (1893-1971)
Synonyms:
Harold Clayton Lloyd; Harold Lloyd; Lloyd
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Context examples:
I saw Mr. Lloyd smile and frown at the same time.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In the course of the morning Mr. Lloyd came again.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"I was knocked down," was the blunt explanation, jerked out of me by another pang of mortified pride; "but that did not make me ill," I added; while Mr. Lloyd helped himself to a pinch of snuff.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I had finished: Miss Temple regarded me a few minutes in silence; she then said—I know something of Mr. Lloyd; I shall write to him; if his reply agrees with your statement, you shall be publicly cleared from every imputation; to me, Jane, you are clear now.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In the course of the tale I had mentioned Mr. Lloyd as having come to see me after the fit: for I never forgot the, to me, frightful episode of the red-room: in detailing which, my excitement was sure, in some degree, to break bounds; for nothing could soften in my recollection the spasm of agony which clutched my heart when Mrs. Reed spurned my wild supplication for pardon, and locked me a second time in the dark and haunted chamber.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,—I desired and waited it in silence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Turning from Bessie (though her presence was far less obnoxious to me than that of Abbot, for instance, would have been), I scrutinised the face of the gentleman: I knew him; it was Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary, sometimes called in by Mrs. Reed when the servants were ailing: for herself and the children she employed a physician.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
