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
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
The preceding novel in the series, The Warden, describes the scandal surrounding the decent old gentleman Septimus Hardinge, whose position running a charitable retirement home becomes the subject of a reform campaign.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2016
Septimus tried to blink, to clear his tearing eyes, but he had forgotten how to blink, and his eyes would not close.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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