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- proper noun A patronymic
surname .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Selina Griffiths as the love-lorn Caroline Tomkinson is also pure brilliance.
Winter Watching 2007
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Selina Griffiths as the love-lorn Caroline Tomkinson is also pure brilliance.
Winter Watching 2007
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– Rose at half-past three, and by five, Henry, Captain Tomkinson, Captain Chetwode, Mr. Mussenden, and I were starting for Schumla.
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We rode to-day with Captain Tomkinson – such a pretty ride!
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Captain Tomkinson, with a sergeant and nine men, has been away on patrol these three days, but is expected back to-night.
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– Captain Tomkinson returned to-day from Basardchick, bringing me a handful of roses from the ruined village, observing, as he gave them to me, that I now possessed roses from nearer the enemy than any one else.
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Captain Tomkinson made me a bed of his cloak and sheepskin; and drawing my hat over my eyes, I lay down under a bush, close to "Bob," and slept till far towards evening.
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– Captain Tomkinson and Mr. Clutterbuck, each with eight men, went out to patrol: they went about ten miles, in different directions, but saw no Cossacks.
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Captain Tomkinson's horse had been shot under him; Major De Salis's horse wounded.
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– Captain Tomkinson returned to-day from Silistria, whither he had been sent to ascertain the best road for marching troops.
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