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Dickinson

[ dik-in-suhn ]

noun

  1. Edwin (Walter), 1891–1978, U.S. landscape and still-life painter.
  2. Emily (Elizabeth), 1830–86, U.S. poet.
  3. John, 1732–1808, U.S. statesman and publicist.
  4. a town in W North Dakota.


Dickinson

/ ˈdɪkɪnsən /

noun

  1. DickinsonEmily18301886FUSWRITING: poet Emily. 1830–86, US poet, noted for her short mostly unrhymed mystical lyrics


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“And there is definitely a bit of Susan in this [with] Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf,” she said.

Dickinson did this as a game and a test—she loved riddles and turned herself into a riddle wrapped in her own lines.

Gary Cohen is executive vice president at BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.) and the founder of Together for Girls.

Faulkner, Whitman, and Dickinson did not labor in vain; their books live on, horizontally, stacked like bricks in a display case.

What would Dickinson do if Jones wanted to work in his unnamed strip club?

The second point Mr. Dickinson did not clearly answer, although it was undoubtedly most fundamental.

John Dickinson saw the matter in the same light, a light which his superior abilities enabled him to portray in more lurid colors.

It decided to adopt Mr. Dickinson's petition; and to this measure John Adams submitted.

In these measures Mr. Dickinson acquiesced, as John Adams had submitted to the petition.

"Come up to my room and we'll see what's on hand," said Doc, entering the Dickinson.

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