Beardsley

[ beerdz-lee ]

/ ˈbɪərdz li /

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noun

Aubrey Vincent, 1872–98, English illustrator.

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Words nearby Beardsley

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How to use Beardsley in a sentence

Uncertain and all of 19, tall and striking Marion “Mimi” Beardsley rode the train from Trenton, N.J..
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The last time Beardsley saw the president was in mid-November 1963.
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At the end of the summer, Beardsley had to return to school.
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Beardsley stepped onto the corridor slidewalk, coasted to the escalator and rode it down.
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Today more than other days Raoul Beardsley felt the burden, the dragging sense of inevitability.
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Beardsley savored the thought tastily, and let it trickle away, and the look of glee on his cherubic face was gone.
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So Beardsley, showing more courage than he felt, trailed the cyberneticist through every unit of final check-up.
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There was something very strange and preoccupied in his movements, Beardsley thought, more than a mere tiredness.
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British Dictionary definitions for Beardsley

Beardsley

/ (ˈbɪədzlɪ) /

noun

Aubrey (Vincent). 1872–98, English illustrator: noted for his stylized black-and-white illustrations, esp those for Oscar Wilde's Salome and Pope's Rape of the Lock

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