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"The term denizen literally means 'citizen of the world,'" Klein said in a statement. From Wordnik.com. [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference
"The term denizen literally means 'citizen of the world,'" said Ross Klein, global head of Hilton's Luxury & Lifestyle Brands division. From Wordnik.com. [Interior Design Industry News] Reference
Downey has called the denizen of 221B Baker Street an early superhero. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
So if you used "denizen" to talk about the cat lying on your sofa, you'd get all sorts of overtones, archaic, high-falutin', whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
For the first time I heard the word "denizen," used by Mr. Crittenden. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1] Reference
The pack or trade rat is also a denizen of the Grand Cañon. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
He is rather a denizen than a citizen of what men call the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
It embellishes the denizen of the city, and hides the nakedness of barbarism. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
There lived then one of the gentry, who had originally been a denizen of Chin Ling. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Would its phlegmatic denizen of colonial times recognize the site of his farms or his mills?. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
He refills the man's cup, and the grizzled denizen of the streets accepts it with gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Sun Shadows Football Great's Twilight Years] Reference
He begins by informing his hearer, that he is the son of Hippias, a noble and wealthy denizen of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
Alice and I plied him with questions, hoping to get something out of an old denizen of the woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Lindley Murray, and in as good English as we have heard from many a denizen of that second Athens. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Thou, in the Eternities and deepest death-kingdoms art not an alien; thou everywhere art a denizen. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
He may be homeless, a bachelor, a denizen of boarding-houses, a wanderer upon the face of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
The free denizen of the boundless forest could no more live without liberty, than flame without air. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
It is not the dweller in the wilderness, but the denizen of cities, that longs for something to happen. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
It is sad to think that this innocent, playful denizen of the woodlands should have many and deadly enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
But like any good B-school denizen, he can recognize a good business opportunity where demand outpaces supply. From Wordnik.com. [Christensen, Inc.] Reference
The sojourner or denizen is here distinguished from the stranger who had been naturalized, adopting their faith. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
More commonly the device adopted is that of introducing upon the scene the denizen of some other country or clime. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
The steam-driven wheel leaves us no occasion to envy even that ubiquitous denizen of the universe, the flying-fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
How delightful it would be to be a denizen of the forest -- to be this elm in whose shadow he was lying! he thought. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
These memories have been well expressed in graphic verse by a living Canadian poet -- a denizen of the old borough of. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
Farmer Stover, like every other denizen of the rural county, had lived for years in terror and hatred of Israel Drake. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
But these historic cantinas are irreplaceable, says Tom Miller, a Tucson-based author and longtime denizen of the border. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's Drug War Hits Historic Border Cantinas] Reference
He is, first of all, a spirit, belonging to the spiritual world, and only secondarily and temporarily a denizen of earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
A few attempts have been made to reinstate it as a denizen of this country, but none on any scale that would ensure success. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
I had to flee -- the enemy went about to destroy me; behold me now the denizen of a second floor in old Mother Bobbery's house. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
This obscure denizen of the sanctuary had a dial in his own soul, and the silent shadow on the figures came from no visible sun. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
I saw that head adorned with earrings fall down from the car like a denizen of heaven falling down on the exhaustion of his merits. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
A whale travelling by himself, and not accompanied by a "school" as usual, was the only solitary denizen of the deep that they perceived. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Roman, or of a mixed extraction, and says his father was of a good family, named Calphurnius, and a denizen of a neigh-boring city of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
I am spending the winter in town, and I hope that for love of your boyhood's friend you will call on my friends as a denizen of this world. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
The night, I know, had closed in, and found me a denizen of the streets, splashed with mud to the collar of my coat, and worn out with fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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