-
became extinct on his death.
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford,
spoke slightingly of him and his mistress, Anna
Maria Faulkner,
including alleging that...
- housewife". The
nickname 'Tilly' was
never used to her face and
referred slightingly to her
utilitarian appearance.
Shilling married George Naylor, who also...
-
Brown was
beginning to be
widely known,
Horace Walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of Brown's work at
Warwick Castle: The
castle is enchanting; the view...
- and
other monuments. It does not seem ever to have grown, and it was
slightingly called (a pun on its name)
Eleinou Polis, "the
wretched town". Nearby...
- Act not
repealed until 1828. Sir
William Coventry, his uncle,
spoke slightingly of him,
ridicules his
vanity and
wished him out of the
House of Commons...
-
appointed to
guard him. He is
taken before the governor,
whose name is
slightingly alluded to ("Monroe he set up for go[ver]nor"). The
whole country turns...
- its (Israel's)
righteous women. A man must be
careful never to
speak slightingly to his wife,
because women are
prone to
tears and
sensitive to wrong...
- in
whose lifetime he died at a very
advanced age,
mentions him
rather slightingly as a good and
harmless man, but no
great orator. Cicero, pro Flac. 19...
-
sometimes accompanied Gray on walks, in the
course of
which he too
spoke slightingly of his wife,
possibly s****ing to turn Gray
against her. Effie's surviving...
-
translation of his
earlier Latin treatises.
Thomas Dunham Whitaker later wrote slightingly of Leigh's "want of literature".
Leigh married Dorothy,
daughter of Edward...
