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Ellison   /ˈɛlɪsən/   Listen
Ellison

noun
1.
United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994).  Synonyms: Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Ellison.



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"Ellison" Quotes from Famous Books



... that rehearsed him, believe me! Y'know just from lookin' at this guy, a man would get to thinkin' about his past life, the time he throwed the baby down the well when but a playful child, how old his parents was gettin' and the time Shorty Ellison run off with the red-headed dame that lived over the butcher's. You wished you had saved your money or somebody else's, suddenly findin' out that it was a tough world where a poor man didn't have a Chinaman's chance, ...
— Kid Scanlan • H. C. Witwer

... summers at Marbury, she knew this country-side well. "Only two or three miles, that's all. You see we've been driving around so much that it seems longer, but it's not really far. This lane leads out on to the Bainbridge road, by the old Ellison Place, and that's only two miles from home. But, after all, nobody may come along here for hours to ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

... occasions on which a recent British Government has recently shown some signs of appreciating a really keen and capable man was when they made Mr. Ellison ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... at all sure whether that is true," the other young lady objected. "You remember when Ellison Gray was always around with us? Why, I know that Mr. Selingman simply worried Maud's life out of her to get a little model of his aeroplane from him. There were no end of things he wanted to know about cubic feet and dimensions. He is a dear, all ...
— The Double Traitor • E. Phillips Oppenheim



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