Gissing
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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As it happened, Gissing had already seen his last spring when he wrote these words, yet his appreciation lingers on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
George Orwell called Gissing “perhaps the best novelist England has produced,” and the Guardian included “New Grub Street” on its 2015 list of the 100 best English-language novels.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Chunman Gissing, 65, has been coming to Viet-Wah since she moved to Seattle in the 1980s.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022
Vera Gissing died on March 12 in a nursing home in Wargrave, a village in Southeast England, her daughter Nicola Gissing said.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022
Of course he assured you that Dibbin, the agent who let the flat to your sister’s husband, will readily identify me as Strauss; that Sarah Gissing, her servant, will hail me as her former master?”
From The Late Tenant by Tracy, Louis
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