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Larkin

[ lahr-kin ]

noun

  1. Philip, 1922–85, English poet and critic.


Larkin

/ ˈlɑːkɪn /

noun

  1. LarkinPhilip19221985MEnglishWRITING: poet Philip. 1922–85, English poet: his verse collections include The Less Deceived (1955) and The Whitsun Weddings (1964)


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Larkin’s snipe through a screen from the left circle improved the upstart Red Wings to 4-2-1.

Larkin followed many personal rewatch journeys while embarking on a couple of his own.

As Larkin would no doubt expect, the history of dubious royal parenting steps back to time immemorial.

By terrifying coincidence, this was the one poem that Thatcher herself thought to recall and misquote when she first met Larkin.

Larkin thought America “vast deserts of bigotry” interrupted by two coasts.

But a crisis center referred me to Larkin Street Youth Center, an organization for the newly diagnosed, like me.

“You hold the legacy of this paper in your hands,” Mailer said at the rally, addressing VVM owners Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey.

The other was Sukey Larkin, who lived twenty miles off, but occasionally came to visit an aunt in the neighborhood.

"I shouldn't wonder if she had set out to go to Sukey Larkin's," replied Catharine.

Week after week Chloe looked out upon the road, in hopes of seeing Sukey Larkin's wagon.

She raised her head, and looked inland, in the direction where she supposed Sukey Larkin lived.

Both Mr. Larkin and Mr. McKenna were diverted by this fancy.

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