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Amis

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A·mis  (ms), Sir Kingsley 1922-1995.
British writer best known for his novels, including Lucky Jim (1954) and Jake's Thing (1978).

Amis [ˈeɪmɪs]
n
1. (Biographies / Amis, Sir Kingsley (1922-1995) M, British, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: poet) Sir Kingsley. 1922-95, British novelist and poet, noted for his novels Lucky Jim (1954), Jake's Thing (1978), Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990)
2. (Biographies / Amis, Martin (1949 M, British, WRITING: novelist) his son, Martin. born 1949, British novelist. His works include The Rachel Papers (1974), Money (1984), London Fields (1989), The Information (1994), and the autobiography Experience (2001)


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She was always taking little houses for somebody's good, for the sick or the sorry, for broken-down artists, cleaned- out gamblers, temporarily unlucky speculators - VIEUX AMIS - old friends, as she used to explain apologetically, with a shrug of her fine shoulders.
Nous serons toujours bons amis, and if you win again, do not fail to come to me, et tu seras heureux.
camarades, there is no drop of French blood in my body, and I am a true English bowman, Samkin Aylward by name; and I tell you, mes amis, that it warms my very heart-roots to set my feet on the dear old land once more.
 
 
 
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