Perronet
Americannoun
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Perronet reasoned what nobody before him dreamed: that the horizontal thrust of each arch carried along the length of the entire bridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most important, Perronet greatly increased the useful waterway underneath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Cennick and Perronet, however, he soon forsook the Wesleys, and now we find him a Calvinistic Methodist, having adopted Wales as his parish.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
Perronet said nothing, but on the morrow he mounted the pulpit and explained that he had not consented to preach.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
Colonel Perronet Thompson, a liberal of the old school, was an efficient member of the League.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
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