Basil I
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Are there any adders around the Mossflower region, Basil? I mean, if there were, then you’d be the very creature to know about them, being an expert and all that.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Forsooth, no friend to me or mine Is that same Abbot Basil; I thought he wronged us by his greed.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
“Frankly, Sir Basil, I have called on you because I am so intensely interested in your work among the Ungapuks that I wish to offer my services.”
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various
"Basil, I thought you had gone with the others."
From The Children of Wilton Chase by Meade, L. T.
Basil, I am a fool and a dreamer!
From Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
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