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- proper noun An English
surname , variant ofEverett . - proper noun A male
given name transferred from the surname, or derived from Old English rootseofor ("boar") +heard ("hardy").
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Examples
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Captain Everard Gault, the Anglo-Irish owner of Lahardane, a modest estate on the southeast coast of Ireland, fires at three shadowy figures approaching his house in the middle of the night.
Tragedy in Ireland 2002
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Captain Everard Gault, the Anglo-Irish owner of Lahardane, a modest estate on the southeast coast of Ireland, fires at three shadowy figures approaching his house in the middle of the night.
Tragedy in Ireland 2002
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Then he called Everard aside, and cautioned him, "it is a hazardous thing to move her at all, and requires very nice management," he said.
Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma Maude Alma
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I have been told that if you draw a circle of chalk round a goose it will starve to death before it will cross the line, and we have all of us more or less affinity with the goose; besides, the grand fault in Everard's character is indolence - a slowness to act.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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I do not want to make it out a virtue in Everard that he remained for a while after he ceased to believe.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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The man she loved, known as Everard by his admirers and his adversaries, was its victim at the hands of U. S-trained interrogators in Guatemala.
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The man she loved, known as Everard by his admirers and his adversaries, was its victim at the hands of U. S-trained interrogators in Guatemala. '
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Harry wanted to ask what the strange silver instrument was for, but before he could do so, there was a shout from the top of the wall to their right; the wizard called Everard had reappeared in his portrait., panting slightly.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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No trace of the trouble within showed in his pale face as he heard his son baptized Everard Jasper Carew Kingsland.
The Baronet's Bride May Agnes Fleming 1860
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"Everard," said Isabel, when they were in the library awaiting the arrival of the others, "write that letter now; I know you can, for you would not look so happy if you felt as you did last night."
Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma Maude Alma
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