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Barnes

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Barnes  (bärnz), Albert Coombs 1873-1951.
American physician and art collector noted for his discovery of Argyrol and his collection of modern French paintings.
Barnes [bɑːnz]
n
1. (Biographies / Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982) F, US, WRITING: novelist) Djuna. 1892-1982, US novelist, noted for Nightwood (1936)
2. (Biographies / Barnes, William (1801-1886) M, British, WRITING: poet) William. 1801-86, British poet, best known for Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1879)
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This consideration gave him no little uneasiness, till Betty, the elder sister, was so kind, some time afterwards, entirely to cure him by a hint, that one Will Barnes, and not himself, had been the first seducer of Molly; and that the little child, which he had hitherto so certainly concluded to be his own, might very probably have an equal title, at least, to claim Barnes for its father.
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The curate had recommended rooms in Barnes, and these Philip engaged by letter at fourteen shillings a week.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
Little Tommy Barnes was asleep now, and when they waked him up he was scared, and cried, and said he wanted to go home to his ma, and didn't want to be a robber any more.
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