404 examples of discoverer in sentences

The modern scientific discoverer and inventor oftentimes finds himself engaged in quests as strange as that of the Holy Grail of Round-Table fiction.

This island, and a river on the coast of the continent of Africa, directly east, now called Cameroon River, are said to have taken their names of Fernando Poo from their first discoverer.

We found Mr. Mastin a very intelligent American; and, as he informed us, the discoverer and part owner of the Pino Alto gold-mines, about fifty miles above, near the Santa Rita del Cobre.

Christopher Columbus of Genoa (born 1430, died 1506), the discoverer of America.

In his right hand he holds a cup, lifting it to drink, and gazing at it like one who takes delight in that liquor, of which he was the first discoverer.

First, here is the portrait of "that worthy and irrecoverable discoverer (as he has justly been called), Master Henry Hudson," who "set sail from Holland in a stout vessel called the Half-Moon, being employed by the Dutch East India Company to seek a northwest passage to China.

It was a record of the life of the discoverer of America that was destined to remain the highest authority on that subject.

" This he said, as he said most things, with a cheery, chaffing good-nature that would have been, perhaps, surprising to a stranger who thought of him only as a grim and mysterious discoverer of secrets and crimes.

The prior clasped his hands in agony, that so much money should have been so near, and yet have escaped his pious purposes, The soldiers took off their caps for the discoverer, and bowed them still lower when he threw every sequin of it into the shakos of those polite warriors.

"I've been thinking," pursued Roy, thoughtfully, as he let his gaze wander from the book between them to the top of the dark pines swaying gently in the summer breeze; "that I may be quite strong enough when I grow up to be a discoverer.

Have you made a choice of any profession yet, either of you?" "Yes, I'm going to be a traveller and discoverer," said Roy, with decision.

He is what you call a discoverer, isn't he?" Roy nodded, then asked anxiously: "Dudley, were you rude to granny before you went out?

I think it is a shame that we haven't also a monument for Cabrillo, the real discoverer, who was here nearly forty years earlier.

[Footnote 8: 'Harvey:' discoverer of the circulation of the blood.]

"Fix'd[530] on the view the great discoverer stood; And thus address'd the messenger of good.

The little church at Petersham is interesting on account of the memorial it contains to the memory of Vancouver, the discoverer, in 1792, of the island bearing his name, on the west coast of the North American continent.

He might have been a diplomatist, a statesman, a discoverer, or a man of science.

He was the discoverer of the anti-typhoid injection which has done so much to stay the ravages of that disease.

Thou art not beyond the moon, But a thing "beneath our shoon:" [A] 50 Let the bold Discoverer thrid In his bark the polar sea; Rear who will a pyramid; Praise it is enough for me, If there be but three or four 55 Who will love my little Flower.

This river was named Fitzmaurice River after its discoverer; and the mouth or inlet of it, after his companion, Keys Inlet.

Men's minds were widened, so to speak, at a bound; their conceptions strengthened and enlarged; for the discovery of Georgium Sidusas the new planet was designated by its discoverer, in honour of George III.rendered possible and probable the discovery of other planets, and thus extended immeasurably the limits of the Solar System.

BEGUM, name given in the E. Indies to a princess, mother, sister, or wife of a native ruler. BEHAIM, MARTIN, a geographer and chartographer, born in Nüremberg; accompanied Diego Cam on a voyage of discovery along W. coast of Africa; constructed and left behind him a famous terrestrial globe; some would make him out to be the discoverer of America (1459-1507).

BLACK, JOSEPH, a celebrated chemist, born at Bordeaux, of Scotch parents; the discoverer of what has been called latent heat, but what is really transformed energy; professor of Chemistry, first in Glasgow, then in Edinburgh, where his lectures were very popular; his discoveries in chemistry were fruitful in results (1728-1799).

But Darwin's co-discoverer, Alfred Russel Wallace, at an early stage in his researches, struck out a most brilliant and pregnant suggestion.

Some Genoese, but very few, and that at the instance of the Admiral, son of the first discoverer of those countries, succeeded in obtaining a like authorisation; but to no one else was permission granted.

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