How To Use Defoe In A Sentence
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The outcome of the match may well be determined by how quiet Ferdinand can keep the effusive Jermain Defoe.
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To persuade the mass of the freeholders was his object, and for such an object there are no political tracts in the language at all comparable to Defoe's.
Daniel Defoe
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If I am not mistaken, the word moll is a well-rooted native word in English going back at least as far as Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders.
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With Life and Times of Michael K, which has its roots in Defoe as well as in Kafka and Beckett, the impression that Coetzee is a writer of solitude becomes clearer.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Press Release
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But Defoe assures his readers he means to go on writing about the Union until he can see some prospect of calm among the men who are trying to make dispeace.
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Johnson sent in a looping cross from the right and Ferdinand beat two defenders to win the header and nod the ball down for Defoe.
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When Daniel Defoe toured England in the early 1720s he discovered many spa towns.
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No one knows whether Defoe fought at this battle, but he certainly was forced into hiding afterwards and was lucky not to be caught and hanged.
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Still, looking on the bright side you're out of the bottom three and none of your players got bitten by Jermain "dentures" Defoe!
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Defoe wrote stories such as Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack and Roxana when prose fiction was regarded as a low form not worthy to be classed as literature.
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Characters and their philosophies can be cobbled together from Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and a reading of contemporary papers.
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I cannot disagree more with this latter-day Daniel Defoe.
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The Briton forgetting his Defoe, [Footnote: The True-born Englishman.] the Jew forgetting the very word proselyte, the German forgetting his anthropometric variations, and the Italian forgetting everything, are obsessed by the singular purity of their blood, and the danger of contamination the mere continuance of other races involves.
A Modern Utopia
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However, such were the vicissitudes of English fortunes that the link with wealth was far more complex than King and Defoe appeared to recognize.
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There is a piece of business to be transacted between writer and reader before any further dealings are possible, and to be reminded in the middle of this private interview that Defoe sold stockings, had brown hair, and was stood in the pillory is a distraction and a worry.
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Defoe's story is an anguished inquiry into questions of predestination and election, freedom and theodicy.
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His account of Defoe's popular success is a clue to his own writerly ambitions.
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Defoe's impetuosity and foolhardiness extended to his business affairs.
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In addition Jermain Defoe, an entirely different type of centre-forward at Tottenham Hotspur, has caught his eye again even if he was not in the party for Montenegro.
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We are reminded of Defoe's Moll Flanders, whose narrator ruefully recalls aspiring as a young maidservant to be a ‘Gentlewoman’ like a woman in her village who sits at her window dressed in fine clothes.
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And it is to rivet this detail in our mind that at this point Defoe describes Crusoe's wardrobe.
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And I think there's a tradition of writers from Defoe to Burgess who see the business of writing as communicating, and turn their hands to different forms.
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Having scored 20 goals so far in the 2009-10 season, Defoe's third hat trick this term ensured the Spurs a fifth-round tie at Bolton.
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Having cashed-in on the want-away, ill-disciplined and potentially disruptive Defoe, Pardew's signings look well-suited to the task of regaining the club's position back among the elite of English football.
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Defoe set up Cole for the second equaliser before scoring the winner.
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Selkirk’s ordeal is believed to have been the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.
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The children shall not be punished for the father's transgression" (Daniel Defoe). As it refers to the breaking of a statute.
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And most have the characteristic of Desolate Island Literature works should be Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
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A middle-class Midwesterner, he was weaned on Daniel Defoe and raised on hunting, hiking, and taxidermy.
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His account of Defoe's popular success is a clue to his own writerly ambitions.
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Literary sentimentalism and the adventure tale after Defoe, with its mixed narrative mode of thrilling episode and pious reflection, also influenced the rhetoric of the slave narrative.
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Daniel Defoe, English writer, author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, died.
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This hybrid of history and travel writing explores the world of castaways, adventurers and indigenous go-betweens that lay behind Daniel Defoe's famous 18 th-century story Robinson Crusoe.
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Daniel Defoe was knowledgeable and proficient in seamanship, he understood the workings of a ship and the skills required for its operation.
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Daniel Defoe, The Consoli - dator: or Memoirs and Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (London, 1705).
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Defoe's third hat trick this term ensured the Spurs a fifth-round tie at Bolton.
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The web-slinging and the dizzying scenes from the heights of New York City plus William Defoe's amazing ability to overact to the point of absurdity all made this movie great fun.
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According to legend, what did Defoe's pillory audience throw at him instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects?
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The dialogic framing structure of a father conversing with his children also enables the text to be self critical as it unfolds: the children raise questions along the way that presumably identify the flaws in Defoe's original.
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West Bromwich 3 West Ham 2: Zola discovers size of task on and off field Portsmouth 2 Middlesbrough 1: Defoe and Crouch on song as Pompey tune up for Uefa Cup Manchester City 1 Chelsea 3: Lampard adds a note of reality to City 'razzmatazz'
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His circumstantiality sometimes has the powerful effect so often remarked in the descriptions of Defoe.
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The high point for Defoe's high-class courtesan is her "little ball" in her swanky London apartments.
Ten of the best balls in literature
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Defoe based his hero on a real-life castaway - Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who was abandoned on the Juan Fernandez islands off Chile in 1704 after an argument with his ship's Captain.
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Defoe is a match winner and is on fire following his first international goal for England.
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Defoe's talents of impersonation and habits of secrecy have left academics to argue over what he did actually write.