Samuel Pepys

How To Use Samuel Pepys In A Sentence

• Samuel Pepys, the diarist, recorded having curds and cream or whey as a snack on several occasions.
• Samuel Pepys recorded that on 6 January 1660 he was entertained to dinner ‘which was good, only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome’.
• Witty, flamboyant and scandalous, he was also a diarist in the tradition of Samuel Pepys.
• During the Restoration its rooms saw many grand assemblies (at one, Samuel Pepys burnt his periwig on a candle).
• Samuel Pepys was the son of a London tailor and a president of the Royal Society.
• Samuel Pepys, the great diarist, died exactly 300 years ago on May 26th, 1703.
• There he is on the front cover - a corpulent fellow with pink cheeks and a long, grey wig, staring out at us with a hint of arrogance: Samuel Pepys, the great diarist.
• The first attested usage of quarantine in its modern sense, the isolation of a potentially infective person or thing, is in the diary of Samuel Pepys in 1663, where he goes off onto a etmylogical point: Some words whose meanings have changed without controversy « Motivated Grammar
• There he is on the front cover - a corpulent fellow with pink cheeks and a long, grey wig, staring out at us with a hint of arrogance: Samuel Pepys, the great diarist.
• He looks through the eyes of Roman historians, diarists like Samuel Pepys, and novelists like Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Virginia Woolf.