What is "smyth"

Usage examples of "smyth".

Thomas Smyth and Davy Dyker, the valuers were sworn before John Wykam, Bedel.

So Millie had learnt to divorce the public image of Burgo Smyth, politician, from the private man she had once known.

He had performed certain introductions for her, for example, including one to Burgo Smyth himself, even though she had not secured that particular interview.

In spite of the cloud which that whole affair had undoubtedly cast on his earlier career, Burgo Smyth had emerged as a junior minister in the new Conservative government of 1970.

The Tory ladies, so vital to the party, had believed Burgo Smyth to be vulnerable, in need of loving care.

One of the others was thirty-one-year-old Burgo Smyth: he lost his seat, and was able to disappear out of the public eye for the next five or six years until he regained it in 1970.

His friendship with Burgo Smyth, going back to Oxford days when Franklyn Faber had been an Oxford scholar, now what was the truth of that?

But for Imogen Swain and Burgo Smyth at this stormy moment in their lives, the background of Der Rosenkavalier did indeed seem well chosen.

In the early sixties Burgo Smyth had sent his love letters overnight by the late post from the House of Commons.

Then for the first time it occurred to Millie that Randall, with his height and rugged dark looks resembled Burgo Smyth as she had once known him.

When the mainspring of her life her love for Burgo Smyth had been broken, for reasons which were still obscure to Jemima, Imogen Swain had somehow ceased to exist.

Jemima wondered whether Lady Imogen had also talked to her doctor about one not-so-strange man from the past: Burgo Smyth.

She needed to rush back to her flat, perhaps to find messages from Swain women, but also to go through the Burgo Smyth saga the Faber Case yet again.

The government, in order to cover up, needed to keep Burgo Smyth loyal and pour all the dirt on Faber.

It found Burgo Smyth on television leaning forward in that paternal way he had, as though he might at any time stretch out his hand from the screen and pat the grateful viewers on the head.