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Example sentences for: waugh

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In Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited , Lord Sebastian Flyte turns the pages of the News of the World and sighs, "Another naughty Scoutmaster."
"The Beast stands for strong, mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," says the press magnate, Lord Copper, in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop . That is a pretty good attitude to have about domestic politics.
When one such officer inspected the cadets at a public school (Lancing) in 1919, the sixteen-year-old Evelyn Waugh helped to organize the dropping of rifles as a demonstration against the man's accent.
"Most good schoolmasters," Waugh wrote, "are homosexual by inclination--how else could they endure their work?"
One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."