Rhys

[ rees ]

noun

1. Jean Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams, 1890–1979, English novelist, born in Dominica.

Rhys

/ riːs /

noun

1. RhysJean?18901979FWelshDominicanWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Jean ( Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams ). ?1890–1979, Welsh novelist and short-story writer, born in Dominica. Her novels include Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

Example Sentences

We have Matthew Rhys from The Americans as a Welsh separatist.

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No nod for Matthew Rhys (who definitely deserved Newsroom's Jeff Daniels's place).

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My favorite part is the scene where Jean Rhys falls into the toilet.

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Rhys Southan pens a crushing essay against the idea humans should extend the Golden Rule to animals.

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None of Indy's later sidekicks was as good as John Rhys-Davies as Sallah.

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Llewelyn could hear nothing, and began to remonstrate; but away sprang Rhys, and he called after him in vain.

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Among them was Rhys, whom Llewelyn caught by the smock-frock, as he came by him, and pulled him out of the circle.

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At Pwllheli, Professor Rhys was told of two youths who went out to fetch cattle and came at dusk upon a party of fairies dancing.

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It is very widely known in Wales, and we may call it, from its best-known example, the “Rhys and Llewelyn type.”

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Rhys urged him to go home and let him finish his dance, in which he averred he had not been engaged more than five minutes.

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