solon

Example Sentences

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“We are a modest town, not a bathing beach,” observed a Honesdale, Pa., solon.

From Golf Digest • May 22, 2019

Another government solon would review “the basis for identifying the group,” resolve claims and determine the liability of a college for discharged loans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2016

But in the Preminger movie, he will play a reticent, somnolent solon from Arkansas�a formidable frustration to a man who once described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language."

From Time Magazine Archive

Someone finally found an apt role for ancient John Carradine: the basso voice of the Great Owl, fierce solon of the forest.

From Time Magazine Archive

E si il accunte plus de jurnees qe ne fiert solon ceste acounte, si ne lor deuez pas alower.'

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul