Septimus
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The landowners sold the site in 1926 to Septimus Wray, a pleasure garden entrepreneur who began opening the caverns to visitors.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024
“In particular, fatigue and loss of taste and smell can persist beyond the period of contagion,” Septimus wrote recently.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2022
Stoppard, like Thomasina, is inclined to grieve the loss, yet he gives Septimus a typically convincing rebuttal, one of the most moving speeches in all his work:
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2021
Yet ever since Woolf decided that Septimus Warren Smith had to die in order that Clarissa could live, Madame Bovary has seemed the kind of cautionary tale feminists felt the need to write against.
From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2016
Tertius thought, although he was not certain, that it was the first star of the evening, the one that his brother Septimus had remarked upon.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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