Hoyle

[ hoil ]

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Hoyle

/ hɔɪl /

Hoyle

/ hɔɪl /

HoyleSir Fred19152001MEnglishSCIENCE: astronomerWRITING: writer Sir Fred. 1915–2001, English astronomer and writer: his books include The Nature of the Universe (1950) and Frontiers of Astronomy (1955), and science-fiction writings

Origin of Hoyle¹

after Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), English authority on games, its compiler

Ironically, in this dispute, the atheist Hoyle was on the side of the pope in seeing a linkage between the Big Bang and God.

Hoyle is at work on a new book about counterinsurgency and the U.S. military.

The same evening she went to the shop of John Hoyle, of Woodend, to buy groceries, and offered the unsigned note in payment.

The survivor was named "Hoyle" (a cognomen for our old friend Hurley) and his doings gave us a new fund of entertainment.

Hoyle, as a pup, was treated benevolently by all the others, and entered the fellowship of the other three when he grew up.

Next Hoyle led Carley down off the knoll to the wide cedar valley adjacent to the lake.

Her alleged phenomena fit into the scheme, her development is according to the spiritualistic Hoyle.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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