Plomer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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My favorite exchanges are those between Fleming and two of his most trusted readers, William Plomer and Daniel George, to whom he sent early drafts of each Bond installment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2015
Britten worked with the poet William Plomer to develop an English version of the Noh play.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2014
All is furnished – or "besprent" as the dire cod-Elizabethiana text by William Plomer might have it – with bright, toy colours and visual wit.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
While a chill nor'easterly, as Plomer might have put it, whipped around our ears, we too became part of the action.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
Sir Thomas Plomer employed him as his broker, and, buying an estate, found it necessary to sell stock.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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