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Congreve

[kon-greev, kong-] / ˈkɒn griv, ˈkɒŋ- /


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"We turn them up and we measure them, they're dead pretty quickly," says Mr Congreve.

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 Restoration saw Britain’s first-ever professional actresses, and both Otway and Congreve helped them shine.

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2019

She excelled at comedy and tragedy, acting in plays by Congreve, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Noël Coward and contemporary English playwrights such as Peter Shaffer.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2015

Was he, Harry, guilty of something like the pose of Congreve?

From The Whirligig of Time by Wayland Wells Williams




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