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  • noun United States actress (born in England) (1899-1991)

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Examples

  • Above the caryatidae were marble busts of men whom that age esteemed great moral emancipators and pioneers; for the most part their names were strange to Graham, though he recognised Grant Allen, Le Gallienne, Nietzsche, Shelley and Goodwin.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • Le Gallienne and Davidson, and even Symons, were provincial at their setting out, but their provincialism was curable, mine incurable; while the one conviction shared by all the younger men, but principally by Johnson and Home, who imposed their personalities upon us, was an opposition to all ideas, all generalizations that can be explained and debated.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • But no other member of the club, except Le Gallienne, who wore a loose tie, and Symons, who had an Inverness cape that was quite new and almost fashionable, would have shown himself for the world in any costume but ‘that of an English gentleman’.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • But no other member of the club, except Le Gallienne, who wore a loose tie, and Symons, who had an Inverness cape that was quite new and almost fashionable, would have shown himself for the world in any costume but ‘that of an English gentleman’.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Le Gallienne and Davidson, and even Symons, were provincial at their setting out, but their provincialism was curable, mine incurable; while the one conviction shared by all the younger men, but principally by Johnson and Home, who imposed their personalities upon us, was an opposition to all ideas, all generalizations that can be explained and debated.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Le Gallienne and Davidson, and even Symons, were provincial at their setting out, but their provincialism was curable, mine incurable; while the one conviction shared by all the younger men, but principally by Johnson and Home, who imposed their personalities upon us, was an opposition to all ideas, all generalizations that can be explained and debated.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Le Gallienne and Davidson, and even Symons, were provincial at their setting out, but their provincialism was curable, mine incurable; while the one conviction shared by all the younger men, but principally by Johnson and Home, who imposed their personalities upon us, was an opposition to all ideas, all generalizations that can be explained and debated.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • But no other member of the club, except Le Gallienne, who wore a loose tie, and Symons, who had an Inverness cape that was quite new and almost fashionable, would have shown himself for the world in any costume but ‘that of an English gentleman’.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • But no other member of the club, except Le Gallienne, who wore a loose tie, and Symons, who had an Inverness cape that was quite new and almost fashionable, would have shown himself for the world in any costume but ‘that of an English gentleman’.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Le Gallienne and Davidson, and even Symons, were provincial at their setting out, but their provincialism was curable, mine incurable; while the one conviction shared by all the younger men, but principally by Johnson and Horne, who imposed their personalities upon us, was an opposition to all ideas, all generalizations that can be explained and debated.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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