Cartland
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Aging romance novelist Barbara Cartland wore so much makeup, Mr. James wrote, that her eyes looked “like the corpses of two crows that had flown into a chalk cliff.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019
I’m not advocating the Barbara Cartland school of maquillage here, but there’s no getting away from it: grey hair is a complexion drainer so the face needs more colour.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2019
And at other times, it is as romantic as anything imagined by William Shakespeare or Barbara Cartland, and the tears you'll cry in the end will be ones of happiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2016
He added, “My mother loved Bryony; she saw her as a Cartland heroine.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2015
As the end drew near, he passed more and more time with his beloved cousins Gertrude and Joseph Cartland in Newburyport, whose interests and aims in life were so close to his own.
From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie
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