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STEPHEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English writer (1832-1904)
Synonyms:
Sir Leslie Stephen; Stephen
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples:
There is Lord Neville, Sir Stephen Cossington, and Sir Matthew Gourney, with Sir Walter Huet, Sir Thomas Banaster, and Sir Thomas Felton, who is the brother of the high steward.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I remember that once before you angered Father Stephen, and my tire-woman said that I lost more hair in seven days than ever before in a month.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What color! What outlines! See to this martyrdom of the holy Stephen, Ford. Could you not yourself pick up one of these stones which lie to the hand of the wicked murtherers?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then you must be Sir Stephen Mackworth, for I learn that when old Sir Guy died he came in for the arms and the name, the war-cry and the profit.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Come, brother Stephen, he hath some tincture of letters,” said the melancholy man more hopefully.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This stone was thrown at the sainted Stephen, and the other two are from the Tower of Babel.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On either side of the young prince rode the two seneschals of Aquitaine, Sir Guiscard d'Angle and Sir Stephen Cossington, the one bearing the banner of the province and the other that of Saint George.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
