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August/September 2005Notable and QuotableMary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born August 30, 1797. Her first and best-known novel, Frankenstein, gave our language the word Frankenstein. It also gave the editors of Webster’s Third copious material for examples of words used in context—assembled here. Remember, finding quotations from an author is easy. Just choose your reference—the Unabridged Dictionary or the Collegiate®—and click on Advanced Search. Type the last name of the author in the Author Quoted box and click on Search. accomplishment noun amount verb ardor noun corruption noun dainty adjective example noun hue noun ideal adjective proportionably adverb, archaic sink verb start verb To see the full list of more than two dozen examples, just choose the Unabridged Dictionary as your reference and click on Advanced Search. Type Shelley as the author in the Author Quoted box and click on Search. |
