Firbank
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I currently await delivery of a larky 1930s novel called “Frolic Wind” by one Richard Oke, whom contemporary reviewers likened to Ronald Firbank and Evelyn Waugh.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2019
Connolly’s purpose was to make a lasting and decisive evaluation of his gifted contemporaries, writers such as Auden, Joyce, Proust, Firbank, Woolf, Huxley, Hemingway, Faulkner and Waugh.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2016
Marx in a punt, Firbank aloud round the gas-ring.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2014
The rococo combination gives the ballet a high-camp fascination, resembling the prose of Ronald Firbank.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2012
For had not he himself, though only a youth of twenty-two, been one of the appointed preachers at Firbank Chapel?
From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
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