Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: poyser
IPA transcription: [p'ɔɪsɚ]
Usage examples
  • No hearer, not even Bartle Massey, was so delighted with this toast as Mr. Poyser.
  • Martin Poyser the younger, as the broadest, was to be president, and Mr. Casson, as next broadest, was to be vice.
  • Arthur had felt a twinge of conscience during Mr. Poyser's speech, but it was too feeble to nullify the pleasure he felt in being praised.
  • If there was something in his conduct that Poyser wouldn't have liked if he had known it, why, no man's conduct will bear too close an inspection; and Poyser was not likely to know it; and, after all, what had he done?
  • Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future, which can be formed so rapidly that he had time to be uncomfortable and to become easy again before Mr. Poyser's slow speech was finished, and when it was time for him to speak he was quite light-hearted.