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GARDINER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902)
Synonyms:
Gardiner; Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
Context examples:
Mrs. Gardiner looked at her niece with a smile, but Elizabeth could not return it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Sallie Gardiner was absorbed in keeping her white pique dress clean and chattering with the ubiquitous Fred, who kept Beth in constant terror by his pranks.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“We have not determined how far it shall carry us,” said Mrs. Gardiner, “but, perhaps, to the Lakes.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And does my hair look very bad? said Meg, as she turned from the glass in Mrs. Gardiner's dressing room after a prolonged prink.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Their journey was performed without much conversation, or any alarm; and within four hours of their leaving Hunsford they reached Mr. Gardiner's house, where they were to remain a few days.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
To Mrs. Gardiner, Wickham had one means of affording pleasure, unconnected with his general powers.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
So Meg reclined, with rubbers well hidden, and Jo went blundering away to the dining room, which she found after going into a china closet, and opening the door of a room where old Mr. Gardiner was taking a little private refreshment.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I hope, added Mrs. Gardiner, that no consideration with regard to this young man will influence her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Phillips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
