Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Halloway, an Englishman, has given $2,000,000 to endow an institution for the higher education of women...
...translations in new clothes, and the good men who labored on it were beyond the reach of the Saturday Review. That the German indexer should catalogue the book as - "Plutarch's Morals," edited by W. W. Goodwin, translated by S. Hands, (several hands) - was pardonable, but for the Englishman to run his neck into such a noose of folly reflects upon himself gravely. The other offence is new and still rankles. Apropos of Mr. Henry Norman's "Account of the Harvard Greek Play," the aforesaid reviewer is amused at the importance of the occasion to the Massachusetts University, in that...
...Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...
...words sounded doubly cruel upon her rosy lips. But the earl, being an Englishman, was too gentlemanly to urge her further. He bowed, smiling cynically, and withdrew...
...time to travel, and especially is it a dreary task in the French railways. My only companion in the carriage was a fine-looking middle-aged man, who had all the appearance not only of a gentleman, but of an aristocrat, and who, after learning that I was an Englishman, conversed most fluently and delightfully in my own tongue during the whole of our long ride. Just before arriving he handed me his card, and said that he should call on me the next day and see if there was any thing he could do for me. His card read...