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nown
[ nohn ]
Example Sentences
But they’ve now landed a powerful ally in the form of ex-Activision strategist, Robert Bowling, nown for his past work on the Call of Duty series.
Pronoun, prÅ′nown, n. a word used instead of a noun.—adj.
In vain did Adeline refuse them; sometimes they were bought, sometimes only threatened to be bought; and once when Adeline had accepted some, rather than mortify Savanna by a refusal, and Berrendale, by his accent and expression, showed how much he grudged the supposed expense,—the mulatto, snapping her fingers in his face, and looking at him with an expression of indignant contempt, exclaimed, 'I buy dem, and pay for dem wid mine nown money; and my angel lady sall no be oblige to you!'
Laura, the teenage heroine of Elizabeth Knox's duologue The Rainbow Opera/The Dream Quake, creates a wishful figment for herself in the shape of a Nown, or golem sandman, to whom she also gives a voice.
Nown is one of the most appealing fictional golems I've come across – his metamorphosis, in a furnace-like burning building, from sand to rough, bubbled glass, is joyful and extraordinary.
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