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Fleming   /flˈɛmɪŋ/   Listen
Fleming

noun
1.
British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964).  Synonyms: Ian Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming.
2.
Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955).  Synonyms: Alexander Fleming, Sir Alexander Fleming.
3.
A native of Flanders or a Flemish-speaking Belgian.



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"Fleming" Quotes from Famous Books



... Brownlow, drawing Oliver to him, and laying his hand upon his head, 'is your half-brother; the illegitimate son of your father, my dear friend Edwin Leeford, by poor young Agnes Fleming, who died in giving ...
— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens
... agreement, you and I! This is splendid. But now we must be praktisch. We are at war, though we hope here for a peaceful occupation of Belgium. You will see how the Flaemisch—Ah, you say the Fleming?—the Flemish part of Belgium will receive us with such pleasure. It is only with the Waelsch, the Wallon part we disagree.... But there is so much for me to do—we must talk of all these things some other time. Let us begin ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was a little Ardennois; Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the same age by length of years; yet one was still young, and the other was already old. They had dwelt together almost all their days; both were orphaned and destitute, and owed their lives to the same hand. It had been the beginning of the tie between ...
— Stories By English Authors: Germany • Various
... to leave the St. Clairs about the first of March, and spend the next three months with her father's sister, Mrs. Fleming. ...
— Patty Fairfield • Carolyn Wells
... temper. "Rats—rats!" he exclaimed, "killing all these pigeons and dragging them up here just to put them away in empty barrels—who ever heard of such a thing!" No stronger language did he use. Like the vicar's wonderfully sober-minded daughter, as described by Marjory Fleming, "he never said a single dam," for that was the sort of man he was, but he went back fuming to ...
— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson


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