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The Admirable Crichton   /ˈædmərəbəl krˈɪtʃtən/   Listen
The Admirable Crichton

noun
1.
Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582).  Synonyms: Crichton, James Crichton.





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"The Admirable Crichton" Quotes from Famous Books



... lovamike," requests the Head Scene-Shifter, "keep the Admirable Crichton out of the Column. We have twenty-five presses, and it takes a guard at each press to prevent it from appearing ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... pleased God, for the advancement of human knowledge, to raise us up a Bonnycastle." Some of his stories were a little romantic, and no less authentic. He had an anecdote of a Scotchman, who boasted of being descended from the Admirable Crichton; in proof of which, the Scotchman said he had "a grit quantity of table-leenen in his possassion, marked ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various


Words linked to "The Admirable Crichton" :   scholarly person, scholar, Crichton, James Crichton, bookman, student


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