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
As to the originality of the form which he employed, it is impossible to agree with Principal Shairp; indeed, he vitiates his whole case by comparing Keble to George Herbert and Henry Vaughan.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
Principal Shairp seems to say that Burns, had it not been for the accident of ecclesiastical discipline to which he had been subjected, would have joined the orthodox party.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
Footnote 6: This “undertone,” as Mr Shairp calls it.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
In his Aspects of Poetry Professor John C. Shairp says that he grants "that the old limits between prose and poetry tend to disappear."
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
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