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How to use oliphant in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word oliphant? Here are some examples.

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Her tocher was a mere thirty chalders of victual from the Oliphant estates.
Meanwhile, Oliphant said Safa has noted with extreme concern the hard-line attitude of the city officials in Cape Town.
Tritium was discovered by physicists Ernest Rutherford, M.L. Oliphant, and Paul Harteck, in 1934, when they bombarded deuterium with high-energy deuterons.
Even Margaret Oliphant got short shrift, mainly because of the prevailing male sniffiness about the fact that this eminent Victorian novelist wrote for a living.
But then Oliphant and Shaun Walker of The Guardian saw something quite different.
Over the next few years these would include John Cockcroft, Norman Feather and Mark Oliphant, who would become firm friends with Chadwick.
It was chaired by Sir George Thomson and its original membership included Chadwick, along with Mark Oliphant, John Cockcroft and Philip Moon.
Deuterium was discovered in December 1931 by Harold Urey, and tritium was prepared in 1934 by Ernest Rutherford, Mark Oliphant, and Paul Harteck.
He acquired Kellie Castle from the 5th Lord Oliphant in 1613 and was given the barony of Kellie.
Molefi Oliphant, president of the South African Football Association, confirmed that South Africa would begin deliberations today on who will lead the Bafana Bafana.
By the age of 15, Burns was the principal labourer at Mount Oliphant.
Chadwick, Oliphant, Peierls and Simon were summoned to the United States by the director of Tube Alloys, Sir Wallace Akers, to work with the Manhattan Project.
Examples from Classical Literature
The authorities on which Mrs. Oliphant relies for her facts are unimpeachably good.
Gavin Douglass of the Vergilian measure was bishop here, and Mrs. Oliphant has written stories round about.
He found the lady sitting in the library in consultation with Captain Oliphant.
Captain Oliphant came to his room while these reflections were occupying his mind.
Sorry to disoblige you, Mr. Oliphant, but it would never do.
Mr. Oliphant snapped his pistol at him, forgetting that it was empty.
Captain Oliphant felt decidedly hurt by the manner of his going.
Captain Oliphant was not much enlightened by this description.
All the house, in fact, except Captain Oliphant, had done the same.
And now I see that Mrs. Oliphant hints at something of the sort.
My arguments are also reproduced by Mr. L. Oliphant in Haifa.
John Wilbye is styled by Oliphant the first of madrigal writers.
Have you heard that Oliphant has been dangerously ill, at n. York?
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