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Gosse

American  
[gaws, gos] / gɔs, gɒs /

noun

  1. Sir Edmund William, 1849–1928, English poet, biographer, and critic.


Gosse British  
/ ɡɒs /

noun

  1. Sir Edmund William. 1849–1928, English critic and poet, noted particularly for his autobiographical work Father and Son (1907)

"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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"She put herself in front of one of her friends, took the bullet, and then died in her arms with the imam saying a prayer over her," Mr Gosse tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2019

“She would come back telling the stories of sharing amazing food and swapping stories with the other women at mosque,” Gosse told the newspaper.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2019

“Linda had a huge heart and what little she had, she was more than happy to share with her family and Muslim community,” Mr. Gosse wrote in a tribute to his aunt on Facebook.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2019

Gosse is credited with inventing the institutional aquarium; Edugyan has Wash coming up with both the idea and a workable design.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

Literary tourists come to the store as to a shrine: thus in later years Matthew Arnold, Cable, Edmund Gosse, Professor Drummond, Dr. Doyle, and others like them, have visited the old corner.

From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

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