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Webster

noun
1.
English playwright (1580-1625).  Synonym: John Webster.
2.
United States politician and orator (1782-1817).  Synonym: Daniel Webster.
3.
United States lexicographer (1758-1843).  Synonym: Noah Webster.



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"Webster" Quotes from Famous Books



... fact that Webster gives no recognition in his dictionary to the Land of Bohemia or the occupants thereof, the land exists, perhaps not in a material way, but certainly mentally. Some have not the perception to see it; some know not the language ...
— Bohemian San Francisco - Its restaurants and their most famous recipes--The elegant art of dining. • Clarence E. Edwords

... John Lyly. John Fletcher. Thomas Kyd. John Webster. Robert Greene. Philip Massinger. Christopher Marlowe. John Ford. William Shakespeare. ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

... is right, and that Ogilvie and Webster, whom you quote, have not got to the bottom of the word. I may add that the notion of my Canton friend receives approval from a Chinese scholar to whom I have ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various

... them through, and I have had no further trouble with them. Obstructions and perplexities which would have driven me mad were simplicities to his master mind and furnished him no difficulties. He released me from my entanglements with Paige and stopped that expensive outgo; when Charles L. Webster & Company failed he saved my copyrights for Mrs. Clemens when she would have sacrificed them to the creditors although they were in no way entitled to them; he offered to lend me money wherewith to save the life of that worthless firm; when I started lecturing around the world to make the money ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... eye. The phrenological organ of language lies above and behind the eye, and when large presses the eyeball forward and downward causing a fullness or sack under the eye which is very prominent in Mr. Grady's portraits. In the power and scope of this feature he had more development than either Webster or Ingersoll. ...
— How to Become Rich - A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony • William Windsor


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