Moll Flanders
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Some claim the title for Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur; others insist it is Robinson Crusoe, but there are also camps for Moll Flanders and Pamela.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2019
He began his career in television, for which he adapted such novels as Cider with Rosie, David Copperfield and Moll Flanders.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2018
Try describing a pub for yourself, without resorting to cultural shortcuts – Marlowe, Moll Flanders, Peggy Mitchell, Withnail, Shaun of the Dead – and likely you will wind up describing what it isn’t.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2015
Here’s how Moll Flanders described being busted: “I was attack’d by two Wenches that came open mouth’d at me just as I was going out at the Door.”
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2011
Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, Roxana, are not criminals from malice; they do not commit crimes for the mere pleasure of the fact.
From Daniel Defoe by Minto, William
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