Raleigh, Sir Walter

[ (raw-lee, rah-lee) ]

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An English explorer of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He is best known for his expeditions to the Americas and for introducing tobacco and the potato, two products of the New World, into England.

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Raleigh is often considered a near-ideal English gentleman of the Renaissance. A well-known legend holds that he spread his coat over a mud puddle so that Queen Elizabeth I would not have to soil her feet by walking through it.

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How to use Raleigh, Sir Walter in a sentence

For as much as Walter was a maniac, he was at the forefront of printing art.
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Now that he was Sir Alfred, there was one final blast of publicity.
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After his knighthood, I stop by to see him and call him Sir Alfred.
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De Mena offers me a glass of Sir Francis Drake, Casa Bruja's red ale.
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Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.
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The old man seemed to be greatly agitated, and hurriedly whispering, "We thought you were never coming, sir!"
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Mr. Pickwick—deepest obligations—life preserver—made a man of me—you shall never repent it, sir.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
Sir Cadge was about the same age as the famous beauty, and rose quite two inches above her lofty head.
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I wouldn't go on if I were you, sir; the luck's dead against you to-night; I wouldn't go on, indeed I wouldn't.
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No, Sir, said the other, nothing at all except the enjoyment of your good company: and so gave over importuning him.
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