Synonyms:
Stanley, Henry_M._Stanley, Sir_Henry_Morton_Stanley, John_Rowlands
Meaning: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
Synonyms:
Stanley, Francis_Edgar_Stanley
Meaning: United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
Usage examples
Stanley shrugged.
Stanley, the Professor and I each took an end.
Aboard her were a Professor George Berry and the owner, Stanley Browne.
Stanley, the Professor and a Zyobite came up in the rear with their three hoses.
That perverse and utterly selfish brother, Stanley Lake, had chosen to take his leave.
"Light up!" ordered Stanley, setting an example by touching his hose nozzle to the nearest wall jet.
"If you asked me, I'd say we couldn't last another three hours anyway," replied Stanley with a shrug.
"It ought to work," Stanley, repeated several times as though trying to reassure himself as well as us.
They had not walked together very far, when Stanley recollected that he must take his leave, and walk back to Gylingden; and so the young lady and Lord Chelford were left to pursue their way towards Redman's Farm together.
I think Lord Chelford perceived there was something amiss between the young people, for his eye rested on Rachel with a momentary look of enquiry, unconscious, no doubt, and quickly averted, and he went on chatting pleasantly; but he looked, once or twice, a little hard at Stanley Lake.