Nasmyth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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That man was Alexander Cunningham, a close friend of Burns who had become a custodian of the Nasmyth painting.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
Burns, who had died a few years earlier, had only ever agreed to sit for one artist, Alexander Nasmyth in 1787 and that painting became the template for every image.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
James Nasmyth, the British engineer and amateur astronomer, produced what looked like impressive photographs of the Moon back in 1874.
From Nature ● Apr. 24, 2018
“That certainly gave me a level of intuition about it that I otherwise would not have had,” Nasmyth says.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 3, 2017
The bark shelter would just hold the two of them, and Nasmyth, dripping, sat down close beside her.
From The Greater Power by Dunton, W. Herbert
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