Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: egerton
IPA transcription: ['ɛɡɚtən]
Usage examples
  • "I don't deny that I've had some dealings with Jackson, but your Egerton I know nothing of whatever."
  • Egerton was at the depot, but could get neither a word with Elsie, nor so much as a sight of her face.
  • He found Arthur nearly recovered, and at once asked a full explanation of the affair of Tom Jackson, alias Bromly Egerton; his designs upon Elsie, and Arthur's participation in them.
  • Ratcliff was not a seer, and had no mystical lore. He was a runaway sailor, who had, in the forties, travelled daily over the Egerton run, unconscious of the tons of gold beneath his feet.
  • "Well, dear, that is perfectly natural, but try to be entirely submissive to your father, and wait patiently; and hopefully too," she added with a smile; "for if Mr. Egerton is really good, no doubt it will be proved in time, and then your father will at once remove his interdict.