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Horace [hawr-is, hor-] EXAMPLES| noun Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 b.c., Roman poet and satirist. a male given name. Liberaldictionary.com
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for horace Contemporary Examples of horace
Tell me something interesting—preferably funny—about Horace Greeley.
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Scott Porch
November 6, 2014
In any case, she was a looker and Horace—with his blue eyes and his sweet-talking ways—won her over.
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Katie Baker
October 24, 2014
Old pictures of the couple show Horace decked out in a three-piece suit and diamond rings and Margaret swaddled in furs.
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Katie Baker
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Horace had been playing poker with a mortician, who had put the car up as collateral.
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Katie Baker
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Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.
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Historical Examples of horace
Horace Milbrey sits alone in his gloomy, high-ceilinged library.
Harry Leon Wilson
At the breakfast-table, comfortably near the hearth, sat Horace Milbrey.
Harry Leon Wilson
In 1772 Horace Walpole compressed the glories of the place into a few sentences. ‘
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Gordon Home
By the statue of Horace Greeley I stood a moment irresolute.
Harriet Stark
And he added, “‘Horace was the son of a shopkeeper’—Horace who?”
Harry Leon Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for horace Horace noun Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus. 65–8 bc, Roman poet and satirist: his verse includes the lyrics in the Epodes and the Odes, the Epistles and Satires, and the Ars Poetica Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for horace Horace
masc. proper name, from French, from Latin Horatius, name of a Roman gens. The poet was Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.E.). The form Horatio is influenced by the Italian version of the name, Orazio.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper horace in Culture Horace
An ancient Roman poet, known for his odes. Horace insisted that poetry should offer both pleasure and instruction.
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