Gosse in a sentence

Borges had earlier written a short essay, "The Creation and P. H. Gosse" citation that explored the rejection of Gosse's Omphalos.

Father and Son After his father's death, Edmund Gosse published a typical Victorian biography, The Life of Philip Henry Gosse (1890).

Simon Game claimed the honours during week one courtesy of his haul of 36 points, but he just pipped Andy Gosse and Stephen Davies on countback.

A shot from second baseman Cooper Gosse was speared by Marinette third baseman Hunter Woulf, who delivered a perfect throw to first to turn the double play.

Commissioned artworks by artists Catherine O’Donnell, eX de Medici, Blake Griffiths, Richard Goodwin, Karla Dickens, Eliza Gosse, Cope Street Collective, and Victoria Garcia will also be showcased.

As D. J. Taylor has written, "the word 'uxorious' seems to have minted to define" Gosse.

Borges argued that its unpopularity stemmed from Gosse's explicit (if inadvertent) outlining of what Borges characterized as absurdities in the Genesis story.

Early life Gosse was born in Worcester in 1810 of an itinerant painter of miniature portraits and a lady's maid.

Frontispiece of Father and Son Meanwhile, the ever active Gosse had taken up the study of orchids and exchanged a number of letters on the subject with Darwin, though he never published on it himself.

Nevertheless, after reading the latter, the writer George Moore suggested to Edmund that it contained "the germ of a great book," which Edmund Gosse first published anonymously as Father and Son in 1907.

Reviewers especially praised the color lithographs made from Gosse's watercolors.

Suffering from headaches, perhaps the result of overwork, Gosse, with his family, began to spend more time away from London on the Devon coast.

Thus, Gosse argued that the fossil record —even coprolites —might also be evidence of life that had never actually existed but which may have been instantly formed by God at the moment of creation.

Thwaite, 114. Gosse "denied any connection with Plymouth" and sometimes called himself simply a member of the church of Christ.

Thwaite, 125, 129. Gosse's insatiable curiosity included trying to eat the birds.

Thwaite, 194. A few months before Gosse was honored, his wife discovered that she had breast cancer.

Thwaite, 317. His wife recalled that Gosse's final illness was triggered by his enthusiasm to adjust his telescope at an open window on a winter night.

Thwaite, 320. Gosse had prayed regularly that he might not taste death but meet Christ in the air at his Second Coming, and he was bitterly disappointed when he realized that he would die like everyone else.

To Gosse's great grief, his son rejected Christianity—though almost certainly not as early or as dramatically as Edmund portrayed the break in Father and Son.