Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: arbuthnot
IPA transcription: [ɑɹb'ʌθnət]
Usage examples
  • He could not but believe Mrs. Arbuthnot.
  • Mrs. Arbuthnot, groping for guidance, prayed about it to exhaustion.
  • The poor were the filter through which the money was passed, to come out, Mrs. Arbuthnot hoped, purified.
  • "Think how much nicer we shall be when we come back," she said to Mrs. Arbuthnot, encouraging that pale lady.
  • Mrs. Arbuthnot's conscience, made super-sensitive by years of pampering, could not reconcile what she was doing with its own high standard of what was right.
  • Some people were like that, Mrs. Arbuthnot knew; and if Mrs. Wilkins had actually seen her at the mediaeval castle it did seem probable that struggling would be a waste of time.
  • And what disturbed Mrs. Arbuthnot about this suggestion was that she did not make it solely to comfort Mrs. Wilkins; she made it because of her own strange longing for the mediaeval castle.
  • Both Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins were shattered; try as they would not to, both felt extraordinarily guilty; and when on the morning of the 30th they did finally get off there was no exhilaration about the departure, no holiday feeling at all.
  • Of Course Mrs. Arbuthnot was not miserable--how could she be, she asked herself, when God was taking care of her?--but she let that pass for the moment unrepudiated, because of her conviction that here was another fellow-creature in urgent need of her help; and not just boots and blankets and better sanitary arrangements this time, but the more delicate help of comprehension, of finding the exact right words.