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Lawrence

noun

1.

Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258). Synonyms: Laurentius, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence.

2.

Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935). Synonyms: Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence.

3.

English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830). Synonym: Sir Thomas Lawrence.

4.

English actress (1898-1952). Synonym: Gertrude Lawrence.

5.

United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958). Synonyms: E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence.

6.

English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930). Synonyms: D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence.

7.

A town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856.

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"Lawrence" Quotes from Famous Books

... being that of all the world-migrations. Colonization in America has followed the trend of the great rivers, and it has ever been northward and westward,—till you and I have to look southward and eastward for the graves of our ancestors. The sons and grandsons of those who conquered the St. Lawrence and built on the Mississippi have since occupied the shores of the Red, the Assiniboine, and the Saskatchewan. They are laying strong hands upon the Peace, and within a decade will be platting townships on the Athabasca, the Mackenzie, and ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... Rodman likes Harvard very much and says he will do anything he can for you He says if you want to mess in Memorial Hall you ought to put your name down at once. There is a special Harvard student here, a Mr. Hickman, who is tutoring Mr. Gilder's children. I like him very much. He is in the Lawrence Scientific School—about your age and a fine fellow—from Nova Scotia. I have been to the Johnsons at Stockbridge. Owen is in love with Yale and wants you to come there. Owen will be a writer, he has already got on the Yale "Lit." ...

— My Boyhood • John Burroughs

... House) was on Magazine Street, built by Mr. Columbus C. Trumbone. On Charlmer Street is the slave market from which slaves was taken to Vangue Range an' auctione' off. At the foot of Lawrence Street, opposite East Bay Street, on the other side of the trolly tracks is w'ere Mr. Alonze White kept an' sell slaves from his kitchen. He was a slave-broker who had a house that exten' almos' to the train ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... the honor," explained his employer; then turning to the others, he announced: "Will you allow me to introduce Mr. Lawrence Glass? He isn't really a valet, you know, Miss Chapin, and he doesn't care for the West yet. ...

— Going Some • Rex Beach

... in New England Theology.—(Bibliotheca Sacra, April, 1863. Article by Professor Lawrence, East Windsor, Connecticut.) This writer contends that human inability is moral, and not natural—a distinction much dwelt upon by the Hopkinsians, but rejected by the Old School Presbyterians. This system differs from the Arminian or Methodist view in insisting ...

— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

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