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Jones

noun
1.
United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930).  Synonyms: Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones.
2.
United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900).  Synonyms: Casey Jones, John Luther Jones.
3.
United States golfer (1902-1971).  Synonyms: Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jones.
4.
American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792).  Synonym: John Paul Jones.
5.
One of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652).  Synonym: Inigo Jones.
6.
English phonetician (1881-1967).  Synonym: Daniel Jones.



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"Jones" Quotes from Famous Books



... 12, 1634, he died, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Giles's in the Field, where his friend Inigo Jones erected a monument to his memory. According to Wood, he was a person of "most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, qualities rarely meeting in a poet." Though his material success seems to have ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman

... sweetest milk, and I have bought the rest— Of course, if we go out of town, Southend will be the best. I really think the Jones's house would be the thing for us; I think I told you Mrs. Pope had ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

... at Peter Jones'—about twenty- four present. After it was over I told the people that the meeting next week would be at Misquaubuhnooke's, on Sugar Island, and we had made a plan for Mr. Frost to go over and teach school ...
— Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians • Edward Francis Wilson

... one word of praise is eminently due. It is not to be confounded with that species of Western pantheism which is rank materialism—making God and the material universe convertible terms. Sir William Jones emphasized this difference—the difference between a system which, in all that it sees, sees God alone, and that which acknowledges no God beyond what it sees. One is the bulwark of materialism; the other its most ...
— India's Problem Krishna or Christ • John P. Jones

... articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it. So that arrangements of mutual obligation had to be made: the good woman from whom Mrs Jones had bought her tomatoes would take charge of the spring chickens Mrs Jones had bought from another good woman just as soon as not, and deliver them at Mrs Jones's residence, as under any circumstances she ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan


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