Mitford

How To Use Mitford In A Sentence

• Seems unfair, but sons of earls are mere "Honorables," like the famous Mitford sisters and the children of viscounts and barons, except that first-born sons of earls and viscounts quite often use the title of one of dad's spare baronies. Peerless Titles
• After dinner I read one of Miss Mitford's hawthorny sketches out of "Our Village," which was lying on the table; they always carry one into fresh air and green fields, for which I am grateful to them. Records of a Girlhood
• Feeling like a character in a Nancy Mitford novel, I dressed for dinner and met my husband in the bar.
• Then he began to peel back the brittle newspapers, Father Tim saw that the date on the Mitford Muse was 1952.
• The day following the incident on the stairs, Mitford was enclosed by a thick blanket of fog and rain.
• He contended that every page of Mitford's History had falsehoods, all stemming from his anti-democratic passion and his excessive regard for monarchal and aristocratic power.
• By the end the "poor little person" – as Diana Mitford called the duchess – far from being vindicated, is shown as stupid and venal, the moment of glamour in the 1930s just that, a chance whereby she caught the light of history. Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers - review
• Comedy tied together "funny" comics and comics more philosophical, ranging from Amis to Wodehouse via Gogol and Mitford.
• Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as 1854, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.
• Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels awaited the publication of each novel, relishing the story of the bookish and bighearted Episcopal priest and the extraordinary fullness of his seemingly ordinary life. Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon: Book summary