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Enderby

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Meaning

(countable) A habitational surname from Old Norse.

(uncountable) A placename:
A village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5399).

A city in Okanagan region, British Columbia, Canada.

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Nothing Like the Sun and the Enderby books prove that Burgess is as clever as he seems. His utopian satires, of which 1985 is yet another, mainly just seem clever. At a generous estimate there are half a dozen ideas in each of them. Clive James

Nothing like the sun and the Enderby books prove that Burgess is as clever as he seems. His utopian satires, of which 1985 is yet another, mainly just seem clever. At a generous estimate there are half a dozen ideas in each of them. Anthony Burgess

Nearly 40 years ago, on the ferry from Liverpool to Dublin, I hurled one of Burgess's Enderby novels into the Irish Sea, unable to bear another word. I have thought of him ever since as a pretentious windbag, a buttonholing bore whose writing had energy but no vitality. Anthony Burgess

Given that the Spacers have already accepted that Sarton's death is unsolved, they are willing to not prosecute Enderby for the accident if he agrees to work with them to promote colonization of other worlds amongst the Medievalists. Source: Internet

Her "prophetic" fate is "a message of warning to all who follow, articulated by Gabriel and vindicated by the Samuel Enderby, the Rachel, the Delight, and at last the Pequod". Source: Internet

Mabel Lake Golf and Airpark in Enderby, British Columbia, 200-miles west, has a nine-hole course, a marina and more than 50 homes that back onto the grass airstrip. Source: Internet

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