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- proper noun A
surname , a variant ofNeville . - proper noun A male
given name transferred from the surname.
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Examples
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But where the crossing is of highest caste -- as with you and your 'Nevil' -- I can see no stigma; perhaps even spiritual gain to your children.
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As if I cared a curse whether Nevil was a rogue or not.
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"Nevil," remarked Aymer severely, "I would call your attention to the fact that your wife is beginning to weigh men's merits by their means."
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"Nevil," she said at last, "about Charlotte I wonder -- do you think ----" she stopped and edged a little nearer her husband and slipped her hand in his.
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'Nevil's leak is his political craze, and that seems to be going: I hope it is.
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It was curious: if he uttered my name Renee, yours, "Nevil," soon followed.
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'Nevil's leak is his political craze, and that seems to be going: I hope it is.
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'Nevil's leak is his political craze, and that seems to be going: I hope it is.
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"There are people who call Nevil lazy, whereas he isn't.
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A forthcoming novel, Directive 51, by John Barnes, does indeed contemplate them, much as in the 1950s Nevil Shute imagined the world after nuclear war in On the Beach.
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