Ingersoll

[ ing-ger-sawl, -sol, -suhl ]

noun

1. Robert Green, 1833–99, U.S. lawyer, political leader, and orator.

Example Sentences

Ingersoll shut down the Bryan factory and moved the work to North Carolina, where union protections were weaker, and to plants in India and China.

From MIT Technology Review

Others, like Daquan, came from the Ingersoll/Whitman projects in Fort Greene.

From The Daily Beast

But despite the influence he wielded in his lifetime, Ingersoll today has been all but forgotten.

From The Daily Beast

Early in life, Robert Ingersoll, talented orator and “self-made American achiever,” had ambitions to hold public office.

From The Daily Beast

“My main function was to take people out on walks with chimps—famous people, mostly,” said Ingersoll.

From The Daily Beast

There, Nim met Bob Ingersoll, a high-spirited University of Oklahoma student who worked at the facility.

From The Daily Beast

I could never discover from his conversation or writings that he had read a line of Shakespeare—the god of Colonel Ingersoll.

From Project Gutenberg

It is regrettable that God did not possess the magnanimity of an Ingersoll and make health contagious instead of disease.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence the Ingersoll Company developed a sort of radium coating for their dials.

From Project Gutenberg

Ingersoll once said that in replying to Gladstone he felt like a man who had been guilty of cruelty to children.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet Ingersoll was surely lacking in the passion for truth that characterized Huxley.

From Project Gutenberg