How To Use Mitford In A Sentence
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Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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I've decided to return to Mitford and stay there, no matter what the future holds .
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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
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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.
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The day following the incident on the stairs, Mitford was enclosed by a thick blanket of fog and rain.
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This all fits with Jessica Mitford's contention in The American Way of Death that thanks to professional embalmers, funeral homes and crematoria, death in modern times has become increasingly remote and sanitised.
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Seems unfair, but sons of earls are mere "Honorables," like the famous Mitford sisters and the children of viscounts and barons, except that first-born sons of earls and viscounts quite often use the title of one of dad's spare baronies.
Peerless Titles
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From the porch of Fembank, he had a commanding view of Mitford.
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Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels awaited the publication of each novel, relishing the story of the bookish and bighearted Episcopal priest and the extraordinary fullness of his seemingly ordinary life.
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon: Book summary
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Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as 1854, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.
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Comedy tied together "funny" comics and comics more philosophical, ranging from Amis to Wodehouse via Gogol and Mitford.
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By the end the "poor little person" – as Diana Mitford called the duchess – far from being vindicated, is shown as stupid and venal, the moment of glamour in the 1930s just that, a chance whereby she caught the light of history.
Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
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He contended that every page of Mitford's History had falsehoods, all stemming from his anti-democratic passion and his excessive regard for monarchal and aristocratic power.
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The day following the incident on the stairs, Mitford was enclosed by a thick blanket of fog and rain.
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Then he began to peel back the brittle newspapers, Father Tim saw that the date on the Mitford Muse was 1952.
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Feeling like a character in a Nancy Mitford novel, I dressed for dinner and met my husband in the bar.
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After dinner I read one of Miss Mitford's hawthorny sketches out of "Our Village," which was lying on the table; they always carry one into fresh air and green fields, for which I am grateful to them.
Records of a Girlhood
