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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word clerihew? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| The literary form, the clerihew, was invented by a schoolboy, all about Sir Humphrey Davy who lived with the odium of having discovered sodium. |
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| The term is a general one that can be applied to nonsense verse, limerick, clerihew, epigram, and mock-epic. |
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| Another contemporary and friend from schooldays was Edmund Bentley, inventor of the clerihew. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The three kept sentry, knowing that clerihew must sooner or later return with his convoy, there being no other exit. |
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| For a good five minutes the pair mauled Mrs. clerihew, who, with an air of high gentility, went on ironing shirts. |
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| But Mrs. clerihew, between her lapses, clung passionately to gentility and the world's esteem. |
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| When it was time to be going she thanked Mrs. clerihew very prettily, and walked back with Brother Copas to her father's room. |
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| It became embarrassing, though, when Mrs. clerihew accosted him next day with a precisely similar request. |
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