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Arthur   /ˈɑrθər/   Listen
Arthur

noun
1.
Elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886).  Synonyms: Chester A. Arthur, Chester Alan Arthur, President Arthur.
2.
A legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot.  Synonym: King Arthur.



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"Arthur" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother's face in his, and that for her dear sake there was no end to my long-suffering. All her pretty ways, too—there was not one of them which he could not suggest and bring back to my memory. I COULD not send him away. But I feared so much lest he should do Arthur—that is, Lord Saltire—a mischief that I dispatched him for safety ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Sir Arthur Sullivan was a man of many musical moods and varied performances, yet his surest fame, at present, ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

... prepare cornmeal in this fashion; the mush, which they call "polenta," forms an accompaniment of meat stews, thus affording all the elements of a "perfect ration." American cooks should employ cornmeal far more than they do. Mush in particular has the advantage possessed by King Arthur's bag-pudding, what cannot be eaten at night may be served "next morning fried." While fried food is, as a rule, not good at breakfast for any save one who has hard manual labor or physical exercise to perform, an exception may be made of fried mush and fried eggs, because ...
— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... Robinson(14)declares most strenuously for composition. "It is my contention," he says, "that one of the first things an artist should learn is the construction of a picture." On a par with this is the opinion of Mr. Arthur Dow, the artist, who declares that "art ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

... is entirely ignorant must be very rare; but there are probably many boys who do not really understand that the sexual act is very likely to lead to a ruined life for the girl companion and her offspring. Arthur Donnithorne, in "Adam Bede," did not forecast that his act would lead to the ruin of Hetty Sorrel and her condemnation ...
— Sex-education - A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its - relation to human life • Maurice Alpheus Bigelow


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