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Example sentences for: basil

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For those who know their name books, it falls somewhere between Basil Cottle's Names (1983) and my own Guinness Book of Names (4th edition 1989).
Nor are they better (you asked for my favorites) than E.L. Konigsberg's From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , or Louise Fitzhugh's books ( Harriet the Spy is best known, but the one I remember best is Nobody's Family Is Going To Change ).
The empire was further diminished by the loss of North Africa and Italy, and was brought to the brink of civil war by the Iconoclastic Crisis, before enjoying another brief golden age under Basil II (976–1025).
Dr. Basil Cottle, a scholar at the University of Bristol, in his useful little book, The Plight of English , devotes nearly four pages to it, describing it at the beginning as a deplorable little syllable.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell.