Shairp

American  

[shairp, shahrp] / ʃɛərp, ʃɑrp /

noun

1. John Campbell Principal Shairp, 1819–85, English critic, poet, and educator.

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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

So much Mrs. Shairp knew, and nothing more.

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Edited by Principal Shairp, LL.D. 12mo, cloth extra 2 50 "The volume glistens with charming passages, showing how rich in 'Wordsworthian' fancy was this modest sister."

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

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

Principal Shairp says: "'The Ode on Immortality' marks the highest limit which the tide of poetic inspiration has reached in England within this century, or indeed since the days of Milton."

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin