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Astor

[ US /ˈæstɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964)
  2. United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848)

How To Use Astor In A Sentence

  • Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
  • Other areas praised by the Ofsted team include her leadership as head, and the pastoral care of pupils.
  • The aim is to roll out the chandlery megastore format to other locations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their pastorals, both published in 1651, offered choices to Royalists in the aftermath of the crushing defeat at Worcester.
  • Sebacic acid can be synthesized from phenols and cresols, but castor oil oxidation is considered a ‘greener’ process.
  • The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.
  • The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
  • High above us, the great heptagon of the Winter sky: Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, and Castor (with Saturn nearby) - with Betelgeuse in the center and the Milky Way cascading through, just to the left of Orion.
  • English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
  • It was made of a mixture of roots of zedoary similar to ginger, lovage and peony, parsnip seeds, mistletoe, myrrh, castor oil and dried millipedes steeped in mugwort tea and brandy. Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
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