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Bartlett   /bˈɑrtlɪt/   Listen
Bartlett

noun
1.
United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946).  Synonyms: Captain Bob, Robert Abram Bartlett, Robert Bartlett.
2.
United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (1820-1905).  Synonym: John Bartlett.
3.
Juicy yellow pear.  Synonym: bartlett pear.



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"Bartlett" Quotes from Famous Books



... something or other. In the evening I went up to my Lord to write letters for England, which we sent away, with word of our coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King supped alone in the coach; after that I got a dish, and we four supped in my cabin, as at noon. About bedtime my Lord Bartlett (who I had offered my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed, who with much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the great cabin below, but I was truly troubled before I could dispose of him, and quit myself of him. So to my cabin again, where the company ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various

... his sister, says Mr. Fitzgerald, in his Memoir of Lamb, went to a school where Starkey had been usher about a year before they came to it—a room that looked into "a discoloured, dingy garden, in the passage leading from Fetter Lane into Bartlett's Buildings. This was close to Holborn. Queen Street, where Lamb lived when a boy, was in Holborn." Bird is described as an "eminent writer" who taught mathematics, which was no more than "cyphering." ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... "Mrs." or "Miss," unless she is a professional woman with a title such as "Dr." But this title is used only if the letter is a professional one. It is not employed in social correspondence. A woman is never addressed by her husband's title, as "Mrs. Captain Bartlett." ...
— How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) - A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence • Mary Owens Crowther

... Dr. Bartlett, in his work on the Fevers of the United States, says:—"The essential, efficient, producing cause of periodical fever,—the poison whose action on the system gives rise to the disease,—is a substance or agent which has received the names of malaria, or marsh miasm. The ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring

... up into Vermont to stay at the old place. There was a little girl there; a bright, black-eyed little girl. She was my cousin, and her name was Mary Bartlett." ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney


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