Oliphant

[ ol-uh-fuhnt ]

noun

1. Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.

Oliphant

/ ˈɒlɪfənt /

noun

1. OliphantSir Mark Laurence Elwin19012000MBritishAustralianSCIENCE: physicist Sir Mark Laurence Elwin. 1901–2000, British nuclear physicist, born in Australia

Example Sentences

But then Oliphant and Shaun Walker of The Guardian saw something quite different.

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Mr. Oliphant here first saw an enchanting location for his colony.

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It is even more beautiful and fertile than Mr. Oliphant describes it to be.

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Probably Mr. Oliphant is interested in the work, and will find his experience in the West not without applicability in the East.

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Mrs. Oliphant did it over and over again, besides alternating the annual dose still more frequently with twos and threes.

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The vicinity of Mount Oliphant to Ayr afforded him facilities for gratifying what had now become a passion.

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