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Churchill

noun

English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722). Synonyms: Duke of Marlborough, First Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill.

British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965). Synonyms: Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill.

A Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain.

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"Churchill" Quotes from Famous Books

... decadent, Horatio Bottomley to advertise "John Bull," and the Archbishop to cause a religious revival. How it is worked is as follows:—Heath Robinson bought a chateau in Flanders and a Crimean war gun. Then Churchill and the Kaiser came into the show. They bring troops up to within 20 miles of Heath Robinson, who fires off his gun every half hour. The troops are quite happy; if anyone grumbles they are sent up to the trenches, where George Graves and Sarah ...

— Letters from France • Isaac Alexander Mack

... managed to put their ideas into such easily fleeting, barbed sentences. Only once was there any shade on the faces of the country gentlemen opposite. That spread when JOE proposed to quote the "lines of CHURCHILL." ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 20, 1892 • Various

... a hotel has acquired the name Carvel Hall, is the house that Winston Churchill had in mind as the Manners house, of his novel "Richard Carvel." A good idea of the house, as it was, may be obtained by visiting the Brice house, next door, for the two are almost twins. When Mr. Churchill was a cadet at Annapolis, ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... philosopher is a trifle too apt to say, "Anybody who does not choose to do as I like is, on the face of it, an inferior member of the human race." I utterly refuse to have any such doctrine thrust down my throat. No sage would venture to declare that the handsome, gorgeous John Churchill was a fool or a failure. He beat England's enemies, he made no blunder in his life, and he survived the most vile calumnies that ever assailed a struggling man; yet, if he was not a dandy, then I never saw or heard of one. All our fine fellows who stray with ...

— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman

... Hogarth quarrelled with Churchill, and drew him as a bear in canonicals. Had he lived to quarrel with the Rev. John Cumming, he would in all probability have drawn him as a puppy in gown and band; and no one who knows aught of the painter ...

— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

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