Example sentences for: boswell

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

  • This is an exceptionally fine collection of scholarly essays, greatly to be valued by readers interested in Boswell and Johnson.

  • Boswell: "Come, come, he is flattering the English.

  • Boswell wrote a considerable volume of published work before he began the Life of Johnson , preliminary trials of strength.

  • Boswell's ambiguities and internal contrarieties are neatly shown in his treatment of William Robertson, Principal of Edinburgh University, praising his literary skills but inveighing against his theology.

  • 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.


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