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Lawrence   /lˈɔrəns/   Listen
Lawrence

noun
1.
Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258).  Synonyms: Laurentius, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence.
2.
Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935).  Synonyms: Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence.
3.
English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830).  Synonym: Sir Thomas Lawrence.
4.
English actress (1898-1952).  Synonym: Gertrude Lawrence.
5.
United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958).  Synonyms: E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence.
6.
English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930).  Synonyms: D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence.
7.
A town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856.



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"Lawrence" Quotes from Famous Books



... know him. It won't bother him. He's keeping cool somewhere in the St. Lawrence. It's ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... burnt, George, Henry, Germany, her conquest of England imagined, Gibbon, quoted, Ginnell, Lawrence, M.P., Gladstone, foreign policy, arbitration, Goethe, ...
— Essays in Rebellion • Henry W. Nevinson

... dialects; her memories of an adventurous, glittering past and her placid contentment with the tranquil grayness of the present; her glorious daylight outlook over the vale of the St. Charles, the level shore of Montmorenci, the green Isle d'Orleans dividing the shining reaches of the broad St. Lawrence, and the blue Laurentian Mountains rolling far to the eastward—and at night, the dark bulk of the Citadel outlined against the starry blue, the trampling of many feet up and down the wooden pavement of the terrace, the chattering ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke

... Lawrence was three miles and a half from Andover. Up to the year 1860 we had considered Lawrence chiefly in the light of a place to drive to. To the girlish resources which could, in those days, only include a trip to Boston at the call of some fate ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various

... day passed, and the next. Lawrence Cardiff found no reason to share his daughter's scruples, and went twice, to meet Mrs. Jordan on the threshold with the implacable statement that Miss Bell had returned but was not at home. He found it impossible to mention Elfrida ...
— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)


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