gazetteer

How To Use gazetteer In A Sentence

• Many interesting sights are mentioned, but in many cases only incomplete directions are given for finding them: the book is more a guide than a gazetteer.
• While holding the political office of "gazetteer" (one who had a monopoly of official news) the idea came to Steele of publishing a literary magazine. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
• The authors have tracked down with immense care as many missions as possible, each recorded in a valuable gazetteer at the end of the book.
• Sandwiched between a brief but useful introduction and conclusion, the bulk of its pages are in effect a gazetteer of churches and other ecclesiastical buildings in the six Border Marches (from east to west, Scottish and English in turn).
• But it follows the gazetteer style and glossy quarto format of the originals. Times, Sunday Times
• We may say that three kinds of men write history: the gazetteer or annalist, the statesman, and the philosopher. Voltaire
• This preparation project gave the students an opportunity to look at old photos, newspaper articles, the census, city directories, diaries, gazetteers, maps, and postcards.
• Finding myself in want of a particular Gazetteer which was not to be found in the office, and being in no mood to take a clerk, however uncritical, into my confidence, I called a hansom and drove straight to the Museum; where, having ensconced myself in the reading-room with the work in question, I prepared to devote a dusty and laborious morning to the service of State. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
• We are used to refreshing our memories from written material, maps and gazetteers.
• History is, for him, a gazetteer for the present and a guidebook for the future.