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Hoyle   /hɔɪl/   Listen
Hoyle

noun
1.
An English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001).  Synonyms: Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle.
2.
English writer on card games (1672-1769).  Synonym: Edmond Hoyle.






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"Hoyle" Quotes from Famous Books



... hundred and three acres, paid for. And there's money somewhere to build a nice residence, and to furnish it according to Hoyle. ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell

... cinch (Hoyle). "Put both feet on the encircled object. Rosin the hands, take a long ...
— Fables For The Times • H. W. Phillips

... "'For Hoyle's disciples hold it as a rule That youth for knowledge should full dearly pay, Wherefore to make young cubs the fitter tool Presuming sense ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

... went wrong," retorted Podmore, eyeing him pointedly as he tilted his hat to the back of his head and proceeded calmly to skin the glove from his left hand. "We're all in this together, J. C., and that's why I insisted on you being here—to see that everything is according to Hoyle." ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse

... on the cussedness of Robert Elsmere and the low-downness of Trilby. Was always wanting everybody to lead the higher life, without ever really letting on what it was, or at least so any one could lay hold of it by the tail. In the end, I reckon he'd have worked around to Hoyle's games—just to call attention to their wickedness, ...
— Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... in Euclid is not more difficult to be got over, nor the logarithms of Napier so hard to be unravelled, as many of Hoyle's Cases ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

... know, Curly?" says she to me. "This ain't according to Hoyle. Mrs. Kimberly ought to of waited till I returned her call, and till maybe one or the other of us had invited the other to a reception, or ...
— The Man Next Door • Emerson Hough



Words linked to "Hoyle" :   writer, author, Edmond Hoyle, card player, Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle, astrophysicist



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