Mitford

How To Use Mitford In A Sentence

• Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
• So we gave up and I ploughed on with the Mitford sisters biography - which is actually far less interesting than the fictionalised versions in Nancy Mitford's novels.
• When Hartington was killed, in Belgium in September 1944, the dukedom passed to his younger brother, Andrew (whose widow, Deborah Mitford, is now the last survivor of the most astonishing set of English sisters since the Brontës). Feckless Youth
• It's as if Nancy Mitford had transplanted her cynical eye from fusty English aristocrats in the 1930s to New York's nouveau riche in the 1990s.
• So we gave up and I ploughed on with the Mitford sisters biography - which is actually far less interesting than the fictionalised versions in Nancy Mitford's novels.
• As for Flush's verses, they are what I call cobweb verses, thin and light enough; and Arabel was mistaken in telling you that Miss Mitford gave the prize to them. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• British scholar Timothy Mitford believes he has found the spot from which a Greek army first sighted the Black Sea during its flight from the forces of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in 401 B.C. Xenophon's Retreat
• I've decided to return to Mitford and stay there, no matter what the future holds .
• Steve Hicks Lawrence, Kansas In his article, "That Dirty Bird," on the onomastic migrations of the shitepoke [III, 3], Steven R. Hicks makes passing reference to the intriguing word shyster, an American colloquialism dating from at least as early as 1846 (see Mitford Mathews, Americanisms, 1966). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
• It will require more grading and earth moving than the Mitford west site and there are no amenities such as washrooms, water, telephones or power.