defoe in English

noun

family name; Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), English writer and journalist, author of "Robinson Crusoe"

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1. 15 Defoe vividly narrated the adventures of Robinson Crusoe on his desert island.

2. 10 Robinson Crusoe is a legendary person created by Daniel Defoe.

3. 19 By 1721 Parliament accepted the argument of Defoe, Rey, and the weavers, and banned calico.

4. The threads of Britain’s secret service were at one time spun by Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe.

5. 14 Defoe skilfully narrated the adventures of Robinson Crusoe on his desert island.

6. 12 Daniel Defoe, English writer, author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, died.

7. 13 Daniel Defoe wrote the story of Robinson Crusoe suggested by the experience of Alexander Selkirk,(www.Sentencedict.com) a Scotish sailor.

8. 6 "Robinson Crusoe" is "fiction, the father of Europe, " Daniel Defoe created an era of old age novel.

9. A farther argument against ennobling foreigners, in answer to the two parts of the State anatomy: with a short account of the Anatomizer Defoe, Dani…

10. ‎A farther argument against ennobling foreigners, in answer to the two parts of the State anatomy: with a short account of the Anatomizer, Daniel Defoe

11. But did you know that an island called Robinson Crusoe exists today and that Daniel Defoe based his famous story on the adventures of a real man on that island?

12. 19 Defoe, a precursor of modern novelists, in his Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders initiated an important theme of modern novels: the fate of an isolated individual in modern society.

13. In 1726 Daniel Defoe described a tradesman involved in the "buying of cochineal, indigo, galls, shumach, logwood, fustick, madder, and the like" as both dry-salter and salter.

14. Kick for kick, and cuff for cuff: a clear stage, and no favour, or, a refutation of a Bombastical scurrilous postscript, wrote by one who calls himself Gabriel John, others still will have it Daniel Defoe, which he calls Reflections on my Hudibrastick reply, to his Flagellum or dry answer to Dr

15. What is most impressive is the way in which Bazes switches styles and argot; the scenes set in the 17th century, in particular, are rendered in a witty pastiche of Defoe and Fielding whilst the contemporary scenes are conveyed through the eyes of multiple protagonists, each represented by a different mode of expression (most notably, the heavy