Shairp
Americannoun
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Investors anticipated S&P’s action, said David Shairp, a global strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management in London.
From BusinessWeek • Jan. 18, 2012
Her mother, who died at the good old age of ninety—in full possession of all her faculties—was a daughter of Sir Stephen Shairp, of Houston, Linlithgow, who was for many years H.B.M.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
As to the originality of the form which he employed, it is impossible to agree with Principal Shairp; indeed, he vitiates his whole case by comparing Keble to George Herbert and Henry Vaughan.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
"If the penters are coming in, it's just the time that I sud be here, sir," said Mrs. Shairp, firmly, but respectfully.
From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
Principal Shairp says: "'The Ode on Immortality' marks the highest limit which the tide of poetic inspiration has reached in England within this century, or indeed since the days of Milton."
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James
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