Example sentences for: boswell

How can you use “boswell” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Puts me in mind of Boswell's description of what in the 18 th century was called a hypochodriack, what we'd call a depressive:

  • It may be true that Boswell's formal, highly generalized diction, quite possibly encouraged by Malone, is no longer to our taste, that is, not the diction of twentieth-century biographers; but if so, so much the worse for 20th-century readers of biography.

  • John Burke (Alabama) reviews and analyzes other contemporary accounts and finds that Boswell's is not only the most accurate but that he uses it to demonstrate Johnson's character, whereas others were merely retailing literary gossip.

  • Late in the evening of Aug. 14, 1773, James Boswell welcomed to his home city his great friend.

  • She's Eleanor's Boswell/Eckermann and Cook's eyes and ears.


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