Gissing
Americannoun
noun
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Gissing, who was rescued from Prague in 1939 at the age of 11, lost most of her family during the Holocaust and ended up settling in the UK after the war ended.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Chunman Gissing, 65, has been coming to Viet-Wah since she moved to Seattle in the 1980s.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
“And, you know,” Mrs. Gissing added, “those are the most important words any child in danger, any child in need, can hear.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
There was no cab; and when he arrived at the Peacock Inn, where Sarah Gissing was now a barmaid, he learned that she was away on leave at a neighboring village.
From The Late Tenant by Louis Tracy
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