BRYAN • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Bryan

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/brˈaɪən/ Listen

Bryan

noun

United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925). Synonyms: Boy Orator of the Platte, Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan.

A town of east central Texas.

See images of 'Bryan'

Etymology of 'Bryan'

Related searches:

Bryan Donkin

George Bryan Brummell

William Jennings Bryan

Share |

"Bryan" Quotes from Famous Books

... largely to his estate, both in the neighborhood of Mount Vernon and elsewhere. In 1759 he bought of his friend Bryan Fairfax two hundred and seventy-five acres on Difficult Run, and about the same time from his neighbor, the celebrated George Mason of Gunston Hall, he acquired one hundred acres next that already bought of Darrell. Negotiations entered into with a certain Clifton for the purchase of a ...

— George Washington: Farmer • Paul Leland Haworth

... to the awful harvest that is being gathered from our churches for the forces of spiritual destruction through our colleges and universities, William Jennings Bryan has had some information given to him that will give us a hint of what is going on. ...

— The Church, the Schools and Evolution • J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

... a thing as a public man addressing the masses was unknown. Sir William Pitt, one of England's greatest statesman and orators, in all his public life uttered only two sentences to the public outside of Parliament. If William Jennings Bryan had lived in Pitt's day, he would have been ignored by the ...

— Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures • George W. Bain

... himself. Maxwell and the Speaker are wrangling across your mother, who looks alarmed; Burleigh is flirting desperately with Miss Alice Maxwell, who is purring upon his senatorial vanity; your Populist is breaking out into the turgid rhetoric of Mr. Bryan; French has persuaded that charming English girl that he is the most literary man in America, and Miss Carter is condoling with March about an ungrateful State. So be happy, my darling, ...

— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton

... without any real opposition. He had served as a member of the Joint High Commission to adjust international questions of moment between the United States and Great Britain. Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan had declared they would not be candidates for the presidency and the Democratic party was in a dilemma. Both the conservative and the radical elements of the party declared they would write the platform and name the candidates. Alton Brooks Parker, Chief Judge of the ...

— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

More quotes...