Forster

[ fawr-ster ]

/ ˈfɔr stər /

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noun

E(dward) M(organ), 1879–1970, English novelist.

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forsooth, forspeak, forspent, Forssmann, for starters, Forster, forsterite, Forstner bit, for sure, forswear, forsworn

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How to use Forster in a sentence

Forster, who died at 91 in 1970, began writing “Maurice” in 1913 and finished it in 1914.
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“Maurice,” which Forster dedicated “To a Happier Year,” doesn’t just have LGBTQ characters.
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This arrangement might end up favoring Forster’s preference for going solely off the results of Trials.
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Which specific door Forster will choose is still up in the air.
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“The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot, Forster wrote in Aspects of the Novel.
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Barnes quotes E.M. Forster: “One death may explain itself, but it throws no light upon another.”
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“You paid good money for this,” says the Vacuum Cleaner Guy (brilliantly played by an avuncular but ruthless Robert Forster).
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A typical printmaker for hire, Kimmel Forster issued pro-Lincoln lithographs as well.
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She spends far more time disarming her reader than Nabokov or Forster.
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Edward Forster had maturely weighed the difficulties of the charge imposed upon him, that of educating a female.
Newton Forster|Captain Frederick Marryat
Mr John Forster was about the middle height, rather inclined to corpulency, but with great show of muscular strength.
Newton Forster|Captain Frederick Marryat
But here the conversation was interrupted by the entrance of Mr John Forster, who had returned from his consultation.
Newton Forster|Captain Frederick Marryat
The door was reopened, and Edward Forster, with Amber holding him by the hand, entered the room.
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The clerk shut the door; John Forster put on his spectacles to reperuse the letter which lay before him.
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British Dictionary definitions for Forster

Forster

/ (ˈfɔːstə) /

noun

E (dward) M (organ). 1879–1970, English novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. His best-known novels are A Room with a View (1908), Howard's End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924), in all of which he stresses the need for sincerity and sensitivity in human relationships and criticizes English middle-class values

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