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2016 Invictus Games city — Virginia Woolf novel
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orlando
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Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) is the eponymous hero of a series of 19 illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale between 1938 and 1972, issued by various publishers including Country Life . Orlando's family consist of his wife Grace, and three ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, Italian form of Roland (q.v.). The city in Florida, U.S., so called from 1857, supposedly in honor of a U.S. soldier, Orlando Reeves, who was killed there in 1835 by Seminoles. It had been settled c.1844 as Jernigan .
Usage examples of orlando.
His half-brother Orlando escaped by boat to the Bahamas last week, and was promptly offered a humanitarian visa by U.
He could not throw himself into cordial relations with the Sir Orlando Droughts, or even the Mr Monks.
That was the time when Sir Orlando was mutinous and when Lopez had destroyed himself.
The names of Major Pountney and Mr Lopez were not now pleasant to her ears, nor did she look back with satisfaction on the courtesies she had lavished on Sir Orlando or the smiles she had given to Sir Timothy Beeswax.
In those days Sir Orlando was unhappy and irritable, doubtful of further success as regarded the Coalition, but quite resolved to put the house down about the ears of the inhabitants rather than to leave it with gentle resignation.
Sir Orlando from referring again on that occasion to county suffrages or increased armaments.
There was I telling tarradiddles by the yard to that old oaf Sir Orlando Drought, when a confidential word from Plantagenet would have had ten times more effect.
Kelly logged on to her ISP and went to the websites of the various theme parks south of Orlando.
Susan mentally flipped through a catalog of Marilyn's seamless dramas, such as the time in the changing room she spritzed a tightly aimed spray bottle of canola oil at the swimsuit of Miss Orlando Pre-Teene after a close call in the talent contest.
Was it a sign—both Robin breezing past and the Tony Orlando thing, Mother help him—telling him to go back to the hotel and watch the latest Hugh Jackman movie on Pay-Per-View?
His left wrist ended in an iron hook, and the other arm had an even stranger termination: as the pirate lord lifted a telescope to his eye, Orlando saw that he gripped the tube with some kind of metal clasper, an object unpleasantly reminiscent of the ravening salad tongs.
The Orlando Conelrad stations had warned of an air raid just before the explosions, so it was presumed that this attack had not come from submarine-based missiles or ICBM's, but from bombers.
A moment later, Orlando was surrounded by a distracting cloud of yellow—the Wicked Tribe, swarming like bees.
Orlando did not want to lose them, did not want to miss what they were saying, but the squirming of the peanut was distracting him.
They say in a few more years you'll be able to travel from Miami to Maine like this, but as of now the Florida part of the Pike only goes from Brevard to Jacksonville, by way of Orlando.