Uttoxeter: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases

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Uttoxeter: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases

  • Language ENG
  • Pages (approximate) 16
  • Item Code 000062822G
  • Published 2009-05-05
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Introduction

Ever need a fact or quotation on "Uttoxeter"? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this word. It represents a compilation of "single sentences" and/or "short paragraphs" from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "Uttoxeter," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. This is not an encyclopedic book, but rather a collage of statements made using the word "Uttoxeter," or related words (e.g. inflections, synonyms or antonyms). This title is one of a series of books that considers all major vocabulary words. The entries in each book cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This data dump results in many unexpected examples for "Uttoxeter," since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a computer-generated linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under fair use conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

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Use in Literature

Uttoxeter

He said that the account had caused a good deal of pique among the good people of Uttoxeter, because of the ignorance which I attribute to them as to the circumstance which connects Johnson with their town.–Nathaniel Hawthorne in Passages From the English Notebooks, vol 2.

He himself was a traveller for a publishing firm; and he introduced conversation by talking of Uttoxeter, and my description of it in an annual.–Nathaniel Hawthorne in Passages From the English Notebooks, vol 2.

I forget whether I recorded, at the time, that an Uttoxeter newspaper was sent me, containing a proposal that a statue or memorial should be erected on the spot.–Nathaniel Hawthorne in Passages From the English Notebooks, vol 2.

The English officer, to whom Sir James Turner was prisoner after the rout at Uttoxeter, demanded his parole of honour not to go beyond the wall of Hull without liberty.–Walter Scott in A Legend of Montrose.

Nonfiction Usage

Bibliographic Usage

AA Publishing. Publisher of "Derbyshire plus Alton Towers, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Burton upon Trent, Castle Donington, Mansfield, Sutton in Ashfield, Uttoxeter enlarged areas Chesterfield, Derby: street by street." Publisher: AA Publishing (Basingstoke). Published in 2001.

Alan Godfrey. Publisher of "Uttoxeter, Burton & District 1905." Publisher: Alan Godfrey (Consett). Published in 1907.

Barbirolli Society. Publisher of "Journal." Publisher: Barbirolli Society (Uttoxeter). Published in 1996.

Barbirolli, John, Sir. Publication of "The Barbirolli Viennese album (sound recording)." Publisher: Barbirolli Society (Watford, England: Dutton Laboratories; Uttoxeter, Staffs., England). Published in 2002.

Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry. Publisher of "Uttoxeter and Tamworth Districts: Public Record Office ref: HO 107/2010, HO 107/2013 (part)." Publisher: Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (Coventry). Published in 1999.

Black, Adam. Author of "(Black's picturesque guide) to Alton Towers and the surrounding district including Dovedale, Ashbourne, Uttoxeter, Ilam, Thor's Cave, etc." By Llewellywn Jewitt. Illustrated with wood engravings. Published in 1869.

Bradshaw, George, M. A. Publication of ""Union is strength:" a sermon, preached in the parish church, Uttoxeter, September 21st, 1852, before the Provincial Grand Lodge of free and accepted masons of Staffordshire." Published in 1852.

Table of Contents

  • Preface iv
  • Use in Literature 1
  • Uttoxeter 1
  • Nonfiction Usage 2
  • Bibliographic Usage 2
  • Encyclopedic Usage 5
  • Lexicographic Usage 6
  • Index 12
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