Selby
[ sel-bee ]
/ ˈsɛl bi /
noun
Hubert, Jr., 1928–2004, U.S. novelist.
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selaginella,
selah,
Selam,
selamlik,
Selangor,
Selby,
selcouth,
Selden,
seldom,
seldomly,
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How to use Selby in a sentence
“This is an amazing story,” says Scott Andrew Selby, author of several books about heists and about true crime in Nazi Germany.
Another possibility: “They start bragging and throwing money around,” says Selby.
“Occasionally somebody gets busted for something else,” says Selby.
“The actual day of the heist there is no way there were 33 [or 31] people involved,” Selby tells The Daily Beast.
Selby says he doubts there was any direct link with Notarbartolo, but he was disturbed by so many odd coincidences of timing.
“If you will condescend to explain the frying-pan I may perhaps relieve you from the fire,” said Selby with emphasis.
Selby was one who felt more or less of shame at the contemptible part he was expected to play.
These she confined in a brick oven till the following morning, when she took them to Selby and disposed of them in the market.
I thought of our journey to Selby; and then I wondered why Mrs. Nicholson was not coming.
Selby, further down the stream on the same side, is a thriving market town.
British Dictionary definitions for Selby
noun
an inland port in N England, in North Yorkshire, on the River Ouse: centre for a coalfield since 1983: agricultural products. Pop: 15 807 (2001)
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