Get Free Checker

James Boswell

NOUN
  1. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795)

How To Use James Boswell In A Sentence

  • When the Scots diarist James Boswell travelled to Corsica in 1765, he was warned he would be killed instantly if he so much as attempted ‘to debauch any of their women’.
  • James Boswell is the only real woman writing at the moment, and that’s just because she wants to get inside Johnson’s breeches. The blue haze of distance
  • The English diarist James Boswell wrote in 1769, only a year after the Genoese ceded the island to France, of the excellence and diversity of Corsican wines.
  • It was a toss - up who was dirtier, Samuel Johnson or his biographer James Boswell.
  • In his famous biography The Life of Samuel John­son, James Boswell acknowledges the hallmark of his book: his assiduity "to preserve his [Johnson's] conversation in an authentick [sic] and lively manner," and his scrupulosity "by which so many conversations were recorded. Archive 2008-09-07
View all