Bulwer

American  

[bool-wer] / ˈbʊl wər /

noun

1. Sir Henry William Henry Lytton Earle BulwerBaron Dalling and Bulwer, 1801–72, British diplomat and author.

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Example Sentences

The BBC even published a long disquisition on English physician John Bulwer’s 1644 "eccentric tome Chirologia: Or the Naturall Language of the Hand, Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereof." to explain what had happened.

From Salon

Conversely, a woman with facial hair was seen by some people not as masculine or unfeminine, but as an abomination, who, according to Bulwer, “must be greeted with stones from a distance.”

From Salon

They were like unto—if not worse than—The Last Days of Pompeii, as described by Bulwer Lytton.

From Slate

Here’s a man who – agreeing with the 17th-century rhetorician John Bulwer that gesture is “the palm and crown of eloquence” – really speaks with his hands.

From The Guardian

Last year, Royal Dutch Shell sold its Australian gas station and refinery operations for about $2.3 billion, and BP is selling its Australian bitumen business, after having shut down its Bulwer Island oil refinery in Queensland.

From New York Times