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Bryan   /brˈaɪən/   Listen
Bryan

noun
1.
United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925).  Synonyms: Boy Orator of the Platte, Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan.
2.
A town of east central Texas.



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"Bryan" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bryan, the American politician, who came over here and heard all our big guns speak—Rosebery, Chamberlain, Asquith, etc.—when asked what he thought, said that a Chamberlain was not unknown to them in America, and that they could produce a Rosebery ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... I'm in convulsions! I'll never forget it if I live to see Bryan vote against prohibition! There's Helen Dear gettin' red in the face and ...
— Kid Scanlan • H. C. Witwer
... following passage from Bryan Edwards will corroborate much that I have endeavored to enforce. It furnishes not only a solution which has been hinted at before, of the enigma why indigo ceased to be cultivated in Jamaica, but also an incentive ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds
... of the Virgin's annunciation." The christening ceremony was gorgeous and elaborate, but, with the downfall of her mother, Anne Boleyn, she ceased to be treated as a princess. She seems to have owed much to the judicious training of Lady Margaret Bryan, in whose charge she was. Later, she was associated with Prince Edward, four years her junior; both displayed an extraordinary precocity and ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various
... some of you and stop that man. Owen Bryan spoke of a half-crazy fanatic, a self-ordained exhorter, who had lately come to the mountain and lived somewhere about, in hiding as it were. An escaped convict, he'd heard. Run. He ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond


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