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US
/ˈɑɹθɝ/
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NOUN
- elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)
- a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot
How To Use Arthur In A Sentence
- Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
- Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. Anne of Geierstein
- But Arthur's do-gooder streak didn't particularly please other Republicans, and he became one of the few Presidents to fail to win his own party's nomination for re-election.
- There is much to ponder in Evans's paper that resuscitates many ideas from Arthur Holmes of a generation ago.
- Arthur spun in his chair, not an ounce of surprise on his face.
- At Merlin's instigation, Arthur founds the Fellowship of the Round Table.
- Mordred and Agravaine propose to call the guileless Arthur's attention to Guenever and Sir A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
- The great house they built may just be ridges in the field to the south-west of the church, but you feel you have met them, Sir Arthur Throckmorton, an Elizabethan squire, and his wife.
- Arthur announced, 'You are indeed brave, sir knight, but the fight is mine!'.