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Lawrence   /lˈɔrəns/   Listen
Lawrence

noun
1.
Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258).  Synonyms: Laurentius, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence.
2.
Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935).  Synonyms: Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence.
3.
English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830).  Synonym: Sir Thomas Lawrence.
4.
English actress (1898-1952).  Synonym: Gertrude Lawrence.
5.
United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958).  Synonyms: E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence.
6.
English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930).  Synonyms: D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence.
7.
A town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856.



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"Lawrence" Quotes from Famous Books



... died Richard Rollo, a hermit, and a verse-writer. He lived a secluded life near the nunnery of Hampole in Yorkshire, and wrote a number of devotional pieces, most of them very dull. In 1350, Lawrence Minot produced some short narrative ballads on the victories of Edward III., beginning with Halidon Hill, and ending with the siege of Guisnes Castle. His works lay till the end of the last century obscure in a MS. of the Cotton Collection, which was supposed to be a transcript of the Works ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... had loosed from her moorings at Montreal and was swinging down with the tide of the mighty St. Lawrence, and on her deck, many leaning eagerly over the railing to get a last glimpse of home, stood some four hundred stalwart sons of the Maple Land. Great, strong fellows they were, all with the iron ...
— The Silver Maple • Marian Keith

... suffered considerably from outside interference with the scientific right to publish scientific conclusions, was strongly opposed to anything that seemed to tend towards breaking down the barrier between man and the lower creatures. Sir William Lawrence, a very distinguished and able man, had been criticised with the greatest severity, and had been nearly ostracised, for a very mild little book On Man; and Huxley tells us that the electors to the Chair ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... and unclasped his hands. He felt that one day he would be crushed between his parishioners' hatred of change and his fellow-priests' insistence on it—rumour said that the Squire's elder son, Father Lawrence, was coming home before long, and the poor little rector quailed to think of what he would say of the harmonium if it was still ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith

... divided into the Upper and Lower Provinces, the former extending westward from Montreal, along the shores of the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, to Lake Huron and the Detroit River. It included about one hundred thousand inhabitants, who were principally the families of American loyalists, who had been compelled to abandon their ...
— Sustained honor - The Age of Liberty Established • John R. Musick,


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