Nashe
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Beauty is but a flower / which wrinkles will devour / Brightness falls from the air / Queens have died young and fair,” Thomas Nashe wrote in his 1593 plague poem “In Time of Pestilence.”
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020
Just having the tablet is a privilege already shown to change inmate behavior, said Turner Nashe, GTL’s senior vice president over educational services.
From Washington Times • May 13, 2017
“You could have Peele, Nashe, anybody else as a dumping ground,” Eric Rasmussen, who co-edited the R.S.C. editions of Shakespeare’s complete works and his collaborative plays, told me over the phone.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017
And remember, too, that one of the enduring traditions of British journalism – from Thomas Nashe to Bernard Levin and even the incredible spouting Littlejohn – is vulgar abuse.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010
He was a scholar, the friend of Raleigh and of Nashe, the most brilliant and educated of the Cambridge wits.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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