Osbert
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The bird was previously known to science from just two specimens first collected by naturalist Andrew Goldie and named and described by British ornithologists Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1883.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 2022
Ms Sitwell said her great-uncle, the writer Osbert Sitwell, bought the drawing in 1936, and no-one had known where it was until last year.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
In the middle of all of them, “the bethroned, center-stage figures of Osbert and Edith Sitwell,” Blake Morrison wrote years later in a scathing essay called “Queen Edith.”
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2019
Osbert Lancaster, a witty cartoonist, and Patrick Leigh Fermor, who would become a glamorous writer, were there.
From Economist ● Sep. 8, 2016
I asked if he thought it was possible Isaac and Edmond and Osbert were all still living together and he shrugged and said Anything’s possible, but there’s a lot of trouble about.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
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