Shairp
Americannoun
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Investors anticipated S&P’s action, said David Shairp, a global strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management in London.
From BusinessWeek • Jan. 18, 2012
"You're a little hard on me, Mrs. Shairp," he said, in dulcet tones.
From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
We have a succession of pictures in which, as Principal Shairp remarks, "man is seen against a great background of Nature and solitude."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
Of “Holy Willie’s Prayer,” Principal Shairp remarks that “those who have loved most what was best in Burns’s poetry must have regretted that it was ever written.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Keble, says Principal Shairp, was, when tested by his own theory, a primary poet—that is, his impulse and treatment were alike original.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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