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WALTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
German conductor (1876-1962)
Synonyms:
Bruno Walter; Walter
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
conductor; director; music director (the person who leads a musical group)
Context examples:
There was only a small part of his estate that Sir Walter could dispose of; but had every acre been alienable, it would have made no difference.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“Everything is known, Colonel Walter,” said Holmes.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Indeed, save myself, and Walter Ford, and you, who are half a clerk, and Father Christopher of the Priory, and Bertrand the page, who is there whom she sees?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But these measures, however good in themselves, were insufficient for the real extent of the evil, the whole of which Sir Walter found himself obliged to confess to her soon afterwards.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
If I didn’t know you were a good man, Walters, I should put a black mark against you for this.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am no chicken, but I cannot claim to know as much of war as the squire of Sir Walter Manny.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In any other place Sir Walter might judge for himself; and would be looked up to, as regulating the modes of life in whatever way he might choose to model his household.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Only Sir James Walter and you had those keys?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Thornbury, Walters, Hackett, Baddlesmere, you are with Sir Oliver on the forecastle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It did not appear to him that Sir Walter could materially alter his style of living in a house which had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to support.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
