13 examples of bevil in sentences

He stood somewhat high in the legal profession, and came, on the maternal side, of a somewhat noted family. BEV'IL, a model gentleman, in Steele's Conscious Lovers. Whatever can deck mankind Or charm the heart, in generous Bevil shewed. Thomson, The Seasons ("Winter," 1726).

Bevil (Francis, Harry, and George), three brothersone an M.P., another in the law, and the third in the Guardswho, unknown to each other, wished to obtain in marriage the hand of Miss Grubb, the daughter of a rich stock-broker.

The fun of the farce is the contention of the Grubs about a suitable husband, their joy at finding they have all selected Mr. Bevil, and their amazement at discovering that there are three of the same name.

HIGGONS (Bevil) says: The Cyprian queen, drawn by Apellês hand.

Does Mr. Bevil know your history particularly?"See Key.

"And there is something in your very strange story, that resemblesDoes Mr. Bevil know your history particularly?"Burgh's Speaker, p. 149.

Bevil Higgons, the writer of it, ventured to make the representative of our great dramatic poet speak these lines!

Mr. Malone says, "Edward Dryden, the eldest son of the last Sir Erasmus Dryden, left by his wife, Elizabeth Allen, who died in London in 1761, five sons; the youngest of whom, Bevil, was father of the present Lady Dryden.

He was second son of Bernard Granville, and grandson of the famous Sir Bevil Granville, killed at the battle of Lansdowne 1643.

They both deserve a place here, I. Why Granville is thy life to shades confin'd, Thou whom the Gods design'd In public to do credit to mankind? Why sleeps the noble ardour of thy blood, Which from thy ancestors so many ages past, From Rollo down to Bevil flowed, And then appeared again at last, In thee when thy victorious lance Bore the disputed prize from all the youth of France.

She was but 14 years of age, when she wrote a copy of verses upon Mr. Bevil Higgons's sickness and recovery from the small pox, which are printed in our author's second volume.

In Cornwall, Sir Ralph Hopton, afterwards Lord Hopton, Sir Bevil Grenvile, and Sir Nicholas Slanning secured all the country, and afterwards spread themselves over Devonshire and Somersetshire, took Exeter from the Parliament, fortified Bridgewater and Barnstaple, and beat Sir William Waller at the battle of Roundway Down, as I shall touch at more particularly when I come to recite the part of my own travels that way.

Then on July 5 Waller gave battle on Lansdowne Hill, and was forced to retire back to Bath, abandoning a quantity of arms and stores; but the triumph of the victors was clouded by the loss of Sir Bevil Grenville, who was killed in the fight.

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