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Fielding

[ feel-ding ]

noun

  1. Henry, 1707–54, English novelist, dramatist, and essayist.


Fielding

/ ˈfiːldɪŋ /

noun

  1. FieldingHenry17071754MEnglishWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistLAW: magistrate Henry . 1707–54, English novelist and dramatist, noted particularly for his picaresque novel Tom Jones (1749) and for Joseph Andrews (1742), which starts as a parody of Richardson's Pamela : also noted as an enlightened magistrate and a founder of the Bow Street runners (1749)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Unfortunately, Toksvig was next to quit the show and Fielding was joined by comedian Matt Lucas, someone the audience really doesn’t seem to like.

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He's dazzling, fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

Ford Madox Ford raged against English novelists from Henry Fielding to George Meredith.

The GOP is fielding its strongest slate of presidential candidates in forever.

But here Virgin was fielding only one test vehicle that embodied a whole set of completely untried systems.

No one in the Hall of Fame was the very best at every hitting or fielding measurement all the time either.

Not long afterwards Mr. Fielding had a severe attack of illness, and was laid aside from his work.

Mr. Fielding continued his ministry in Preston in several other places for thirteen years after the erection of St. James's.

If Ruth Fielding took an interest in anything that thing, Tom declared, "went with a bang!"

She even professed to know the miller's feelings toward his grand-niece, Ruth Fielding, better than Ruth knew them herself.

Ruth Fielding and Helen Cameron, her chum, had arrived with other girls bound for the college on the noon train.

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