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MORTIMER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330)
Synonyms:
Mortimer; Roger de Mortimer
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Lord; noble; nobleman (a titled peer of the realm)
Context examples:
Mrs. Marker is prepared to swear that the professor was still in his night-clothes, and indeed it was impossible for him to dress without the help of Mortimer, whose orders were to come at twelve o’clock.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Learning from Traddles that the invitation referred to the evening then wearing away, I expressed my readiness to do honour to it; and we went off together to the lodging which Mr. Micawber occupied as Mr. Mortimer, and which was situated near the top of the Gray's Inn Road.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“My brothers!” cried Mortimer Tregennis, white to his lips.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The famous Smith-Mortimer succession case comes also within this period, and so does the tracking and arrest of Huret, the Boulevard assassin—an exploit which won for Holmes an autograph letter of thanks from the French President and the Order of the Legion of Honour.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mortimer Tregennis considered earnestly for a moment.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our next obvious step is to check, so far as we can, the movements of Mortimer Tregennis after he left the room.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If, then, Mortimer Tregennis disappeared from the scene, and yet some outside person affected the card-players, how can we reconstruct that person, and how was such an impression of horror conveyed?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You will recollect that Mortimer Tregennis, in describing the episode of his last visit to his brother’s house, remarked that the doctor on entering the room fell into a chair?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the second case—that of Mortimer Tregennis himself—you cannot have forgotten the horrible stuffiness of the room when we arrived, though the servant had thrown open the window.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had bought a lamp which was the duplicate of the one which had burned in the room of Mortimer Tregennis on the morning of the tragedy.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
