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Jones

noun
1.
United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930).  Synonyms: Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones.
2.
United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900).  Synonyms: Casey Jones, John Luther Jones.
3.
United States golfer (1902-1971).  Synonyms: Bobby Jones, Robert Tyre Jones.
4.
American naval commander in the American Revolution (1747-1792).  Synonym: John Paul Jones.
5.
One of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652).  Synonym: Inigo Jones.
6.
English phonetician (1881-1967).  Synonym: Daniel Jones.



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"Jones" Quotes from Famous Books



... his only son was to pass in order that he might die upon a scaffold before it,— was busied in removing the ancient and ruinous buildings of De Burgh, Henry VIII., and Queen Elizabeth, to make way for the superb architecture on which Inigo Jones exerted all his genius. The king, ignorant of futurity, was now engaged in pressing on his work; and, for that purpose, still maintained his royal apartments at Whitehall, amidst the rubbish of old buildings, and the various ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

... Yes, thank you. Very good. We will now continue. And I give and bequeath the like sum of Five Hundred Pounds—did I say, free of legacy duty? No? Then please add it to James Walsh's clause. Five Hundred Pounds, free of legacy duty, to Thomas Webster Jones, of Wheeler Street, Soho, for his admirable invention of a pair of braces which will not slip down on the wearer's shoulders after half an hour's use. Most braces, you must ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen

... "Well, Squire Jones was the man; he does not say much one way or other. But I'll tell you he always gets the ...
— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn

... Was it to you, Mr. Walter Landor, whom Southey (in his strange affection for the name of Wat) had honoured with so much kindness—to you whose "matin chirpings" he had so generously encouraged, (as he did John Jones's "mellower song,")—was it to you that Wordsworth delivered so injurious a judgment on the works of your patron? If so, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843 • Various

... Prince," the finest vessel engaged in the Colonial commerce, was purchased by the Marine Committee, renamed the "Alfred," after Alfred the Great, the founder of the English Navy. To the "Alfred" John Paul Jones was appointed Lieutenant under Captain Salstonstall, on the same day Barry ...
— The Story of Commodore John Barry • Martin Griffin


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