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Meanings of nightingale in inglés
English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)
Synonyms
Examples for "Florence Nightingale"
Examples for "Florence Nightingale"
1
Wherever the worst cases were to be found there was Florence Nightingale.
2
This lady hyer is Florence Nightingale or Martha Washington, I disremember which.
3
Since those days, Florence Nightingale has done many kindly and noble deeds.
4
But then you know the soldiers used to kiss Florence Nightingale's shadow!
5
Madam, - Our health service could badly do with a 21st-century Florence Nightingale.
1
She led the class procession as the Lady with the Lamp.
2
She didn't say anything about being Lady with the Lamp or top of her class.
3
During the Crimean War, the Lady with the Lamp trained these women in her pioneering nursing practices.
4
Mrs. Kaufman informed Hildemara that she would head the procession as the Lady with the Lamp, Florence Nightingale, the mother of nursing.
5
Her noble work was celebrated by Longfellow, in his poem "Santa Filomena," often better known as "The Lady with the Lamp":
Usage of nightingale in inglés
1
Suddenly the nightingale stopped, and a voice called out in the distance:
2
The song of a nightingale purled and thrilled in an adjacent wood.
3
This is the bird which the Portuguese call the nightingale of Guiana.
4
At the bottom was the wood where the nightingale had his home.
5
They chattered so loud that the nightingale stopped singing in a huff.
6
Somewhere in the thick bushes near them a nightingale began to sing.
7
I will hear this nightingale; I insist upon its being here to-night.
8
This same nightingale was keeping a little surprise in store for me.
9
Followed the beat of lessening footfalls, while the nightingale improvised an envoi.
10
She laughed at this quietly, with the melting laugh of the nightingale.
11
Followed the beat of lessening footsteps, while the nightingale improvised his envoi.
12
The girl clapped her hands gleefully, what time the nightingale sang on.
13
After you consume the pink confection you will sing like a nightingale.
14
He purposed that very soon the nightingale should sing within a net.
15
She prayed her lord to grant her the nightingale for a gift.
16
But when the nightingale set up his song every other bird stopped.
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Nightingale through the time
Nightingale across language varieties
United Kingdom
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