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Definition of Falkner
1. Noun. United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962).
Generic synonyms: Novelist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Falkner
Literary usage of Falkner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania: 1694-1708 by Julius Friedrich Sachse (1895)
"He was the younger brother of Daniel Falkner, ARMS OF CHUR-SACHSEN AD 1694. ...
When Justus Falkner left Europe he was yet in his diaconate, and a candidate ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Other translations or abridgments have appeared in German and Spanish collections
of travels. Pennant had several conversations with Falkner, and wrote a ..."
3. United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic Coast. Part IV. From Point Judith to New by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Herbert Gouverneur Ogden, John Ross, Herbert Cornelius Graves, Harry L. Ford (1899)
"The tidal currents set across these rocks and shoals with considerable velocity
and should be allowed for in approaching them ; to the northward of Falkner ..."
4. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1837)
"Falkner; a Novel. By the author of " Frankenstein. ... If Falkner, therefore, be
a gradation in the progress of Mrs. Shelley's mind, we hail it as a decided ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Falkner, THOMAS, b. 6 Oct., 1707; d. 30 Jan., 1784. He was the son of Thomas
Falkner, a Manchester apothecary, and obtained his education at the Manchester ..."
6. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1910)
"Falkner, Ralph, to Gates on his troops, 14. 657; on supplies, troops, &c., ...
Falkner, Thomas, commission as secretary and clerk of crown to be signed, 11. ..."
7. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"THE CHAIRMAN : The next speaker will be Dr. ROLAND P. Falkner, of New York, ...
ROLAND P. Falkner At a previous session of this Conference I endeavored to ..."
8. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Falkner. (No. 90.) (Supreme Court of North Carolina. Oct. 19, 1921.) 1. ...
David Falkner was convicted of willfully abandoning his wife without providing ..."
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