Kilvert
Britishnoun
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Among a fresh crop of boutiques: the three-level Lark Vintage, with its 20th-century couture and kitchen full of kitsch, and the atelier of the animal-loving artisan Mary Kilvert, who creates woolly sheep sculptures.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2014
In 1976, with a lawyer friend, John Kerry, who would become a senator from Massachusetts and the 2004 Democratic nominee for president, he founded Kilvert & Forbes, a cookie company.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2010
"Oh, Mr. Maurice—Captain Kilvert, sir!" he burst out, consternation in every line of his usually stolid countenance.
From Uncanny Tales by Various
I put your letter away for some time till Mrs. Kilvert sent me upstairs for my gloves.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Mr. Kilvert was a good scholar, but in the dryest, hardest sense; of literature he knew nothing, and he was entirely without originality or cleverness, so that his knowledge was of the most untempting description.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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