Tennysonian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Tennysonian
Example Sentences
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Once Gill included the Tennysonian phrase "nature, red in tooth and claw" in a "Talk of the Town" item.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Tennysonian notion that it is not a soldier's business to reason why is so much spinach to the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Mr. Lancaster pointed to a woodcut on a time-stained circular, which showed a Tennysonian gentleman with bushy brown whiskers, gold pince nez.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gilbert Murray, on the other hand, sheds a sad, clinging, Tennysonian morality over Dionysus.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
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