Woolf

[ woolf ]

/ wʊlf /

noun

Virginia Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, 1882–1941, English novelist, essayist, and critic.

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As a college student, I was lucky enough to visit Charleston on a tour of Virginia Woolf related sites.
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Lakoff and Woolf—and the groups with which they affiliate—reject the core identity of Israel as a Jewish State.
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From Bellow to Woolf, Matt Seidel on the mystical workings of just 24 hours.
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Upon its completion Woolf had gifted it to its inspiration, Vita.
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Elsewhere in the book, Woolf writes, “These changes of mood wear us out.”
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Oats, Captain Trevithick's head boiler-maker, was constructing the boilers; Woolf came into the yard, and examined them.
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Among the most prominent of these were Trevithick and Woolf.
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This story Mrs. Woolf tells in nearly five hundred-and-fifty pages of fairly close print.
The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920|Various
But, Phebe, they have a young Woolf over there; so look out he doesn't catch you.
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Assuredly, Mrs. Woolf is not of the company on whose banner is inscribed "No discrimination!"
Since Czanne|Clive Bell

British Dictionary definitions for Woolf

Woolf

/ (wʊlf) /

noun

Leonard Sidney. 1880–1969, English publisher and political writer

his wife, Virginia . 1882–1941, English novelist and critic. Her novels, which include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941), employ such techniques as the interior monologue and stream of consciousness

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