Congreve
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As Dr Congreve says, "There's still room to grow" - and glow, presumably.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
Any woman of a certain age in anything by Shakespeare, Dickens, Congreve, Dryden or Sheridan.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
The Way of the World, written and directed by Theresa Rebeck, adapted from the play by William Congreve.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2018
The quote about Alexander the Great that they use in Die Hard is actually bastardised from dramatist William Congreve.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2017
The latter advancing steadily, throwing Congreve rockets as they approached, so shook the courage of the militia that it required but the levelled gleaming bayonet to scatter them like sheep over the field.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
