Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A nineteenth-century English poet and the wife of Robert Browning. Elizabeth Browning is best known for Sonnets from the Portuguese. The most famous of these sonnets begins, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

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How to use Browning, Elizabeth Barrett in a sentence

But Huckabee (akin to Elizabeth Warren on the left) is like an ice cream sundae.
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Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”
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“Elizabeth Warren is the originator,” he said of the comment that energized Republicans in the 2012 race.
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All of this makes little sense unless you're familiar with what Barrett Brown did.
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Louis stood firm, though pale and respectful, before the resentful gaze of Elizabeth.
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But, there was also another which might not be quite so pleasing to Elizabeth, although Louis felt it came too late for him.
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While Louis was reading these dispatches, he received a summons from Elizabeth, to attend her immediately.
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Answered Elizabeth, hardly attempting to conceal her scornful doubt of his sincerity.
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Elizabeth, meanwhile, was filled with alarms respecting her daughter's unhappy infatuation.
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