Example sentences for: dickson

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  • A glance at the citations in the OED or at Partridge's article in Name Into Word , which Dickson cites in his bibliography, would have made it clear that this usage did not extend beyond the 17th century.

  • These experts, notable among them Stephen M. Dickson of the Maine Department of Conservation and L. Kenneth Fink of the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine, quickly fingered the culprit: the concrete sidewalk, erected some 75 years ago by an island benefactor--one Mr. Stanley of Steamer fame.

  • This is not to suggest that Dickson's book is a catalogue of bloopers, or what Amsel Greene (and Jack Smith) like to call pullet surprises . There are many interesting entries in Family Words which, as far as I know, is the first documentation of the genre.

  • Mr. Dickson says, for instance, that he has long had a special passion for apple names, and quotes several hundred of them, but he ignores the National Apple Register of the United Kingdom , by uriel W.G. Smith, which catalogues the names of 22,000 cultivars.

  • This slightly enlarged version of Paul Dickson's Names , published by Delacorte Press in 1986, is a light-hearted collection of names that the author considers to be interesting for one reason or another.


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