Baxter


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Baxter

(ˈbækstə)
n
1. (Biography) James (Keir). 1926–72, New Zealand lyric poet. His works include The Fallen House (1953) and In Fires of No Return (1958)
2. (Biography) Richard. 1615–91, English Puritan divine and devotional writer: prominent in church affairs during the Restoration
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Baxter, a large, greyish, throaty-voiced man, showed no enthusiasm.
M'Leod was quite willing to enter into the game of the pretended purchase, but did not see how it would help if I knew Baxter.
"No, miss, that I certainly don't." She stooped, and looked down at the spaniel's injured side--brightened suddenly with the irradiation of a new idea--and pointing to the wound with a chuckle of satisfaction, said, "That's Baxter's doings, that is."
"I suppose that's why so many women kill themselves cooking--just as poor Amelia Baxter did.
What was occupying his mind at the present moment was the thoroughly unsatisfactory conduct of his wife's brother, Bertie Baxter. The more tensely he brooded over the salient points in the life-history of his wife's brother, Bertie Baxter, the deeper did the iron become embedded in his soul.
Glegg walked across the room to the small book-case, and took down Baxter's "Saints' Everlasting Rest," which she carried with her up-stairs.
"My dear Philippa, did you ever hear of the famous Betty Baxter, who `refused a man before he'd axed her'?
There were also some rather commonplace pictures of river scenery, a paint-box, a box of colored chalks, some brushes, that curved bone which lies upon my inkstand, a volume of Baxter's `Moths and Butterflies,' a cheap revolver, and a few cartridges.
Baxter Pennilow, who did everything handsomely, used to import twelve a year, two velvet, two satin, two silk, and the other six of poplin and the finest cashmere.
I looked at the card: "James Baxter, London Correspondent, New York Monitor."
I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say,
At a few minutes after nine the maid, Edith Baxter, carried down to the stables his supper, which consisted of a dish of curried mutton.