Barchester Towers
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
What to read while you’re reading Barchester Towers:
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2016
Barchester Towers shifts from a light satire of church politics to a high comedy of marital proposals.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2016
The Trollope of Barchester Towers is about as worldly as a novelist can get without tipping over into outright cynicism.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2016
Trollope's Barchester Towers smacks appreciative lips over the pettiness of an English cathedral town, controlled by Mrs. Proudie, a mean woman and a real woman, wife of its weak-minded bishop.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a higher level stands St. George's, once a church, but years ago promoted to a cathedral-dignity, making Freetown proud as Barchester Towers.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
