Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
staurus .
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Examples
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I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed "stauri" had better have at least a happy ending.
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I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed "stauri" had better have at least a happy ending.
Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties Max Beerbohm 1914
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I remember saying at last that if indeed I was destined to write about him, the supposed 'stauri' had better have at least a happy ending.
Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914
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Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimed Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentith senchri, rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames" -- a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter no wot posterriti thinx ov im!
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Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimed Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentith senchri, rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames" -- a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself a grate jeneus an maix a bargin with th Devvl in auder ter no wot posterriti thinx ov im!
Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties Max Beerbohm 1914
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'Fr egzarmpl, a riter ov th time, naimd Max Beerbohm, hoo woz stil alive in th twentieth senchri, rote a stauri in wich e pautraid an immajnari karrakter kauld "Enoch Soames" -- a thurd-rait poit hoo beleevz imself
Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914
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