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Richards   /rˈɪtʃərdz/   Listen
Richards

noun
1.
English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979).  Synonyms: I. A. Richards, Ivor Armstrong Richards.



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... Richards. Pacific Press Pub. Co., $1.00. Written in language easily understood and ...
— Camping For Boys • H.W. Gibson

... Club, which may boast among its members some of the most distinguished names of the age, including royalty itself, owed its origin to the talents of those celebrated artists Richards and Loutherbourg, whose scenic performances were in those days often exhibited to a select number of the nobility and gentry, patrons of the drama and the arts, in the painting-room of the theatre, previous to their being displayed to ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... Shots were judged to a hair's-breadth, and the judging was perfectly fair. Strangely enough I managed to win a sack of meal and a barrel of vinegar. As these were of no use to me, I exchanged them for fifteen shillings and a hundred Westley Richards cartridges. My shooting caused me to find favor in the eyes of these farmers; I was cordially invited to remain and hunt with them for as long as I liked. I might have done worse than accept; the life they were leading was a lordly one. However, ...
— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully

... dissertation on the noted colored women of Virginia would find a small circle of readers but would, nevertheless, contain interesting accounts of some of the most important achievements of the people of that State. The story of Maria Louise Moore-Richards would be a large chapter of such a narrative. She was born of white and Negro parentage in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1800. Her father was Edwin Moore, a Scotchman of Edinburgh. Her mother was a free woman of color, born in Toronto ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various

... "Mrs. Richards has made for herself a little niche apart in the literary world, from her delicate treatment of New England ...
— Margaret Montfort • Laura E. Richards


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