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Gillespie   /gəlˈɛspi/   Listen
Gillespie

noun
1.
United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993).  Synonyms: Dizzy Gillespie, John Birks Gillespie.



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"Gillespie" Quotes from Famous Books



... to announce to the people of the United States the death of James Gillespie Blaine, which occurred in this ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison

... Gillespie, trader and clerk for the North-West Company, which ruled over an empire broader than Europe in the beginning of this century, and with Indian allies and its own riotous Bois-Brules, carried war into the very heart of the vast territory claimed by its rivals, the ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut

... as choice reading up and down the Coast. He made curious blunders, at first, as to the proceedings, but his open confession of ignorance in the early letters made these blunders their chief charm. A young man named Gillespie, clerk of the House, coached him, and in return was christened "Young Jefferson's Manual," a title which ...
— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... actor, Colonel Macdouall, Captain Gillespie, and Mrs. Riddel, are the characters which pass over the stage in this strange composition: it is printed from the Poet's own manuscript, and seems a sort of outpouring of wrath and contempt, on persons ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... Durston, Egan, Scalzi, Fitzpatrick, and Gillespie mention rejuvenation and renewed lactation in aged women. Ford has collected several cases in which lactation was artificially induced by women who, though for some time not having been pregnant ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



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