Fielding

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/ ˈfil dɪŋ /

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

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How to use Fielding in a sentence

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.
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Ford Madox Ford raged against English novelists from Henry Fielding to George Meredith.
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The GOP is fielding its strongest slate of presidential candidates in forever.
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But here Virgin was fielding only one test vehicle that embodied a whole set of completely untried systems.
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No one in the Hall of Fame was the very best at every hitting or fielding measurement all the time either.
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Not long afterwards Mr. Fielding had a severe attack of illness, and was laid aside from his work.
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Mr. Fielding continued his ministry in Preston in several other places for thirteen years after the erection of St. James's.
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If Ruth Fielding took an interest in anything that thing, Tom declared, "went with a bang!"
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She even professed to know the miller's feelings toward his grand-niece, Ruth Fielding, better than Ruth knew them herself.
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Ruth Fielding and Helen Cameron, her chum, had arrived with other girls bound for the college on the noon train.
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British Dictionary definitions for Fielding

Fielding

/ (ˈfiːldɪŋ) /

noun

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)

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