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Boswell [boz-wel, -wuh l] Examples noun
- James,1740–95, Scottish author: biographer of Samuel Johnson.
- any devoted biographer of a specific person.
Related formsBos·well·i·an [boz-wel-ee-uh n] /bɒzˈwɛl i ən/, adjective Examples from the Web for boswell Contemporary Examples of boswell
The Kentucky bard Ed McClanahan once lived in California, where among various endeavors he played Boswell to the Grateful Dead.
The Stacks: Grateful Dead I Have Known
Ed McClanahan
August 30, 2014
None of the officials will be able to get their old jobs back, and Boswell will not return as the head of diplomatic security.
Kerry Reinstates Benghazi Officials Clinton Punished
Josh Rogin
August 20, 2013
Boswell is a man of the modern West, a spiritual descendant of the Wallace Stegner school of writing.
A Bar of Paranoid Schizos: Robert Boswell’s ‘Tumbledown’
Drew Toal
August 6, 2013
“I wanted to make this film because I wanted to inspire people,” Boswell told The Daily Beast.
Whitney Young Jr., the Boardroom Hero of the Civil Rights Movement
Nina Strochlic
February 18, 2013
A U.S. official who has read the classified report said Lamb and Boswell were named in that version.
Eli Lake
December 19, 2012
Historical Examples of boswell
“I expect she won’t take a fancy to Boswell very early,” said Keating.
Booth Tarkington
But even in those days as a callow, trusting youth, he’d been smarter than Boswell.
Charles Saphro
Yet the boldness of the sage, and the cheerfulness of Boswell, carried them through it all. ‘
William Keith Leask
There is something unsatisfactory in the fact that Boswell was not with Johnson as he died.
William Keith Leask
Why does Boswell yet wear the crown of indivisible supremacy in biography?
William Keith Leask
British Dictionary definitions for boswell Boswell noun
- James . 1740–95, Scottish author and lawyer, noted particularly for his Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
Derived FormsBoswellian (bɒzˈwɛlɪən), adjective