Morphy
Americannoun
noun
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Australian Florence Morphy gave the small terracotta urn to England captain Ivo Bligh as a trophy and symbol of her love.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023
But the effort kept most alive until a new habitat could be prepared in Middle Ponil Creek, about 58 miles from Rito Morphy.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2022
Jamie Saxon, the president of Morphy, Makofsky, the New Orleans engineering firm that helped design the jail and schools, estimated that the elevation and hardening of those buildings “added a 35 to 40 percent premium.”
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2018
Morphy never got a chance to challenge Staunton on his celebrated trip to Europe.
From Washington Times • Aug. 25, 2015
Fischer, like his predecessor Morphy, the nineteenth-century American prodigy, wasn’t especially prolific when it came to writing about chess, so the public greedily awaited each word he produced.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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