Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ecclesiastical, an abbreviation of the Latin Wintoniensis, Winchester.
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Examples
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Tim Winton is consistently voted Australia's most beloved novelist.
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Winton is well-known in Australia and should be here.
Breath: Summary and book reviews of Breath by Tim Winton. 2008
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But Winton is pitch perfect in capturing (but not exploiting) adolescent angst, and he describes surfing and the sea so thrillingly that even nonswimmers will want to plunge right in.
Breath: Summary and book reviews of Breath by Tim Winton. 2008
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Time stands still in Winton, North Carolina -- or at least it seems that way.
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The genius of Tim Winton is that for all of this he never loses his pacing, and the story lodges deeply within the reader.
Dirt Music: Summary and book reviews of Dirt Music by Tim Winton. 2002
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To have called Winton a "crank" would never have occurred to any one -- his hair was always perfectly parted; his boots glowed; he was hard and reticent, accepting and observing every canon of well-bred existence.
Beyond John Galsworthy 1900
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To have called Winton a "crank" would never have occurred to any one -- his hair was always perfectly parted; his boots glowed; he was hard and reticent, accepting and observing every canon of well-bred existence.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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Pennington, alias Winton, was recently sentenced at the Old Bailey to fifteen years, and the two young Frenchmen, Terassier and Brault, to seven years each, for complicity in the robbery on the Scotch express.
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London William Le Queux 1895
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He picked up the telephone and called the Winton residence; on learning
Michael O'Halloran Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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The original name for the town -- now known as Winton -- was Pelican
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