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US
/ˈɡɫædˌstoʊn/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈædstəʊn/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈædstəʊn/ ]
NOUN
- a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
- liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)
How To Use Gladstone In A Sentence
- Since that remote day Gladstone has been four times Premier; has delivered numberless speeches of the highest order of excellence; has published a multitude of pamphlets and volumes which attest consummate intellectual gifts, and has been a great force in English statesmanship and scholarship through an exceptionally long life and almost to the very close of it. The Grand Old Man
- On the exterior there are sculpted heads of the likes of Palmerston and Gladstone. Times, Sunday Times
- The agitation that he led influenced Gladstone to introduce the 1881 Irish Land Act, guaranteeing fair rents, fixity of tenure, and freedom to sell (the Three Fs) to tenants.
- In a conversation with Mr. Gladstone in 1887, he referred to the enormous power and responsibilities of the United States, and suggested that a desideratum was a new unity between our two countries. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
- Many intellectual lights of the day were attracted to the movement: writers Tennyson and John Ruskin, philosopher William James, Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, prime ministers W.E. Gladstone and Arthur Balfour, and especially Frederick Myers, the inventor of the word "telepathy," and Trinity College professor Henry Sidgwick. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- In 1857 it was so hot in London that Gladstone noted umbrellas being used as parasols in Piccadilly.
- Chris arranged for a lorry to load 12 tons of hickory wood billets in bundles at Gladstone Dock, starting at 8am.
- Trouble continued on the land in Ireland when Gladstone started his second ministry in 1880.
- I was immediately whisked away then taken to Gladstone Psychiatric Hospital, where I was supposed to spend the next few days in detox.
- Working in the professor's private laboratory Gladstone produced, first, a report on the analysis of sand from a Normandy beach, and then in 1847 a paper on the explosive guncotton, just a year after its discovery by Christian Schönbein.