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MORTON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)
Synonyms:
Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton; Jelly Roll Morton; Morton
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
jazz musician; jazzman (a musician who plays or composes jazz music)
Context examples:
Mrs. Ferrars looked exceedingly angry, and drawing herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter philippic, "Miss Morton is Lord Morton's daughter."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I find, however, a short note at the end of my manuscript dealing with this case, in which I have put it upon record that Miss Violet Smith did indeed inherit a large fortune, and that she is now the wife of Cyril Morton, the senior partner of Morton & Kennedy, the famous Westminster electricians.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When he is at home, he is in his own parish at Morton.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I will take my oath he never dropt a syllable of being tired of her, or of wishing to marry Miss Morton, or any thing like it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You will not stay at Morton long: no, no!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I only mean that I suppose, from your manner of speaking, it must be the same to Miss Morton whether she marry Edward or Robert.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
St. John made you schoolmistress of Morton before he knew you were his cousin?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The interest of two thousand pounds—how can a man live on it? —and when to that is added the recollection, that he might, but for his own folly, within three months have been in the receipt of two thousand, five hundred a-year (for Miss Morton has thirty thousand pounds,) I cannot picture to myself a more wretched condition.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Morton, when I came to it two years ago, had no school: the children of the poor were excluded from every hope of progress.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Elinor wanted very much to know, though she did not chuse to ask, whether Edward was then in town; but nothing would have induced Fanny voluntarily to mention his name before her, till able to tell her that his marriage with Miss Morton was resolved on, or till her husband's expectations on Colonel Brandon were answered; because she believed them still so very much attached to each other, that they could not be too sedulously divided in word and deed on every occasion.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
