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Carter

noun

Englishman and Egyptologist who in 1922 discovered and excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (1873-1939). Synonym: Howard Carter.

39th President of the United States (1924-). Synonyms: James Earl Carter, James Earl Carter Jr., Jimmy Carter, President Carter.

Someone whose work is driving carts.

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"Carter" Quotes from Famous Books

... the scenes at Ober Ammergau and those at Mecca, and he was glad to get away from "a pandemonium of noise and confusion," while Mrs. Burton, who was told to mind her own business by a carter with whom she remonstrated for cruelly treating a horse, discovered that even Ober Ammergau was not all holiness. Both Burton and his wife recorded their impressions in print, but though his volume [326] appeared in 1881, hers [327] was not ...

— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright

... home late last night after we were all in bed." She returned to her work, and after a moment called to him through the open window. "There's going to be a nutting party to-morrow, and we want you to go. We're going out to Carter's grove; we've got ...

— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine

... profoundly, and returned thanks for the great honour done him, when a well-dressed man, whose name I could not learn, stepped forward, and in a well-indited speech congratulated both the chosen and the choosers. "Upon my word," said a gruff carter who stood near ...

— Travels in England in 1782 • Charles P. Moritz

... adapted to the situation and employment of the wearer. But a country girl in France, whose bed-gown and petticoat are of the coarsest materials, and scantiest dimensions, has a pair of long dangling ear-rings, worth from 30 to 40 francs. A carter wears an opera hat, and a ballad-singer struts about in long military boots; and a blacksmith, whose features are obscured by the smoke and dirt which have been gathering on them for weeks, and whose clothes hang about him in tatters, has his hair newly frizzled ...

— Travels in France during the years 1814-1815 • Archibald Alison

... a dim hand-lettered sign: MEDICAL SECTION. It was just as he had remembered it. Holstering the small automatic, he struck a match, shading the flame with a cupped hand as he moved it along the rows of faded titles. Carter ... Davidson ... Enright ... Erickson. He drew in his breath sharply. All three volumes, their gold stamping dust-dulled but readable, stood in tall and perfect order ...

— Small World • William F. Nolan

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