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Example sentences for: nightingale
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And "Ode to a Nightingale," which meditates on suicide, is an elegy for himself: "Now more than ever seems it rich to die,/ To cease upon the midnight with no pain."
asks Keats at the end of "Ode to a Nightingale."
An unclear sense-development of this word is mapped out in the OED , but it seems to concede that the modern sense of lavatory originated at the start of this century: the (British) Army and Navy Stores catalogue of 1926 lists a lavatory paper-holder as one of its items, but it was probably earlier: The Illustrated London News reported in 1860 that each ward of the new Florence Nightingale School of Nursing had its own bathroom, lavatories and closet.
; a) Phyllis Schlafly or b) Florence Nightingale?
Back when Republicans owned the White House and Democrats ran the Senate, Orrin Hatch of Utah was the Florence Nightingale of wounded nominees.