(n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(2) The great Liberal party of Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George opposed European empires.
(3) When the eminent biologist TH Huxley met Gladstone for the first time in 1877, in the company of Darwin , he exclaimed afterwards: “Why, put him in the middle of a moor, with nothing in the world but his shirt, and you could not prevent him being anything he liked.” This is my view of Cicero: drop him into Westminster or Washington or any other political culture and he would instantly begin clambering to the top.
(4) Located in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, 400km inland from the reef, it will require a major rail line, which is yet to receive final approval, to transport the coal, which must then be loaded on to ships at the ports of Hay Point and Abbot Point, near Gladstone on the Queensland coast, adjacent to the southern section of the reef.
(5) Gladstone famously asked where on the map the Habsburgs had ever done any good?
(6) Lloyd George, Gladstone, Churchill - he reluctantly resigned at 80 in 1955 after a four-year rearguard action – Thatcher of course, Macmillan too, were shambles.
(7) Much is made of the conditions placed on developments such as this and in Gladstone, but those conditions mean nothing because when they are broken – no action is taken,” she said.
(8) Planned expansion of ports, or the creation of new ones, at sites including Gladstone, the Fitzroy Delta, Abbot Point and Townsville, would involve dredging 149m tonnes of seabed to allow large ships to access ports.
(9) He was, colleagues sometimes felt, far more interested in the past; more likely to consult the shades of Gladstone or Asquith than the present reality.
(10) But when Parnell’s secret affair with Kitty O’Shea blew open in 1890, Gladstone disowned him – and the home rulers made the fatal mistake of sacking the charismatic Parnell in order to keep in with the Liberals.
(11) He was recorded as describing the prime minister as "the worst politician in British history since William Gladstone" and "an arse".
(12) "Ship strikes alone have killed 45 turtles in Gladstone Harbour since the Curtis Island LNG project began, compared with an average of two a year in the past decade."
(13) A hundred years ago Mr Gladstone's budget swept away the oppressive duties on newsprint and so enlarged the range and freedom of the press.
(14) Out At key stages 2 and 3 (ages seven-11), far fewer historical figures are specified in the latest draft, with Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, Adam Smith, the anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and even Margaret Thatcher no longer featuring.
(15) One banner said: "'Teesside the infant Hercules': PM William Gladstone 1860.
(16) And I suppose you could sum it all up the way one of your British prime ministers summed it up, Gladstone, when he said that the first requirement for a prime minister is to be a good butcher.
(17) Various Australian waters have been dredged in the past, most notably Port Phillip Bay, overlooked by Melbourne, and, more recently, locations off the Queensland coast such as Gladstone harbour.
(19) He added that he feared his party was helping Cameron to become Benjamin Disraeli – and he was not sure who was being cast in the role of Gladstone.
(20) Clegg told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: "I certainly think in many ways actually what the Scottish people want isn't exactly on the ballot paper – which is a greater expression of Scottish nationhood, greater devolution of powers from London to Holyrood, what is called in the jargon "devo-max" or in Liberal Democrat language, ever since the days of Gladstone, home rule.
Portmanteau
Definition:
(n.) A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.
Example Sentences:
(1) In news set to shake the music industry to its very foundations, the two boybands are to merge and go full portmanteau with a tour in 2014.
(2) Lifestyle is a convenient portmanteau term which, in relation to the causes of cancer, has come to mean all aspects of the way people behave, whether determined voluntarily or imposed by economic, cultural, or geographic circumstances, including reproduction but arbitrarily excluding occupation.
(3) I am guessing that “makery” is a portmanteau for “made-up bakery”.
(4) Trump’s supporters, like Brexit supporters before them, will say that these are merely the bleatings of the sore losers – the Remoaners, the Grimtons, or whatever portmanteau is conceived next.
(5) We may have only just been given a great new portmanteau term for the type, but the lumbersexual has been here for a while.
(6) Kashiwa Reysol The Sun Kings Sanfrecce Hiroshima Sanfrecce is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San, and an Italian word frecce or arrows.
(7) - One is the ability of digital disrupters (in this case, even within the same company) to take one bit of a newspaper and do it with a conviction, range, depth and passion that a portmanteau print-based newspaper cannot match, especially in digital form.
(8) Most – preferably all – portmanteau words should be banned by newspapers and other media organisations, especially “mansplaining”.
(9) Sunderland (an estimated 13,000) and Southampton (14,000) against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in 1996-97 and 1998-99 are two of the more famous examples; the latter led to the portmanteau "Dellhurst Park".
(10) He was also the co-creator of the supernatural portmanteau film Dead of Night , to which he contributed the much-imitated yarn about the tormented ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) and his demonic doll.
(11) Also, the portmanteau of square eggs is squeggs, and does that sound like something you should be eating?
(12) I’ve got a few better portmanteau words up my sleeve, such as “frackricide”: the lawful killing of someone who refuses to stop talking about fracking; “deathicit”: a plea to be used in mitigation for executing someone who refuses to stop talking about the GERS figures: “My client pleads not guilty to the charge on the grounds of involuntary deathicit.” A “bamsplainer” is a foolish person who insists on using the word “mansplaining”.
(13) It should also be noted that in current Hungarian political usage “liberal” doesn’t have the connotations of “civilised”, “enlightened” or “generous”, it’s a portmanteau for leftwing conventions.
(14) A former banana-ripening warehouse, it had been bought by Albery's father Donald as a rehearsal space for Margot Fonteyn (Donmar is a portmanteau of their first names), then used by the RSC as its London pied-à-terre in the late 70s.