Example sentences for: boswell

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

  • deals with Boswell's episodes of melancholia, a trait he shared with Johnson, and his essays on it in The Hypochondriack .

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

  • Paul Korshin (Pennsylvania) supplies a masterly analysis of Johnson's conversation as recorded by Boswell, sometimes a bit long after the fact.

  • Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Johnson was the first of the great Scot-bashers, elevating a common anti-immigrant prejudice to a wittier sort of anti-immigrant prejudice and a way to tweak his great friend James Boswell.

  • (All taken from Boswell's Life of Johnson unless otherwise noted.)


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