Sample Sentences forDaniel Defoe (auto-selected)
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His contemporary Daniel Defoe wanted to police the language to the extent that coining a new word would be a crime as grave as counterfeiting money.† (source)
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"The 'History of the Devil,' by Daniel Defoe,—not quite the right book for a little girl," said Mr. Riley.† (source)
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Swift, Pope, Defoe, Stevenson, Saint Augustine, Aristotle, Virgil, Plutarch.† (source)
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Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being.† (source)
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I snuck into the library and took a book from the shelves—a story called Robinson Crusoe by Mr. Defoe.† (source)
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His memoir, An Historical Relation, was used by Defoe as a psychological source for the ever inquisitive Robinson Crusoe.† (source)
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He read Defoe, Smollet, Stern, and Fielding—the fine salt of the English novel lost, during the reign of the Widow of Windsor, beneath an ocean of tea and molasses.† (source)
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Author: Daniel Defoe I was born at York, in the year 1632, of a reputable family.† (source)
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Written from her own Memorandums ...by Daniel Defoe† (source)
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But then Mason, Wilson, and John Adams, no less than Jefferson, were, as they all appreciated, drawing on long familiarity with the seminal works of the English and Scottish writers John Locke, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, and Henry St. John Bolingbroke, or such English poets as Defoe ("When kings the sword of justice first lay down, / They are no kings, though they possess the crown.† (source)
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Borrowing a line from a poem by Daniel Defoe that she knew he would recognize (for he had used it, too), she wrote, "Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.† (source)
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Defoe helped popularize the novel in Britain.†
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