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Brinton   /brˈɪntən/   Listen
Brinton

noun
1.
United States anthropologist who was the first to attempt a systematic classification of Native American languages (1837-1899).  Synonym: Daniel Garrison Brinton.






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"Brinton" Quotes from Famous Books



... Spirit of the Algonkins. In Autumn, in the moon of the falling leaf, ere he composes himself to his winter's sleep, he fills his great pipe and takes a god-like smoke. The balmy clouds from his pipe float over the hills and woodland, filling the air with the haze of "Indian Summer." Brinton's Myths of the New World, ...
— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon

... the Earl of Sunderland, who was killed at the battle of Newbury. After his death, she was united to a Mr. Robert Smythe; and she now lies at Brinton, in Northamptonshire, while her picture continues, from the walls of the gallery at Penshurst, to shed down the soft, languishing, and voluptuous smile which had captivated the passions, if it could hardly ...
— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham

... Thomas Brinton, appointed in 1373 by the Pope, who rejected the monk's nominee, their prior, John Hertley; a Benedictine of Norwich; had been penitentiary to the ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester - A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See • G. H. Palmer



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