Blavatsky

[ bluh-vat-skee ]

/ bləˈvæt ski /

MadameElena Petrovna Blavatskaya, nee Hahn,1831–91, Russian theosophist.

Example sentences from the Web for blavatsky

This did not, however, stop her from snagging, at the age of 17, an older geezer named Blavatsky.

Dead Cool: Madame Blavatsky |Simon Doonan |January 6, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
In 1890 he published an expos of the impostures of Blavatsky, and from that time his interest in the cult gradually ceased.

Birds and all Nature Vol VII, No. 2, February 1900 |Various
Madame Blavatsky received Solovyoff kindly, and they became excellent friends.

Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft |Henry Ridgely Evans
"She's the simon-pure Blavatsky, all right," he concluded, as he pieced these things into what he had just seen.

The False Gods |George Horace Lorimer

Blavatsky began by exploding the theory that men are born equal.

Ghosts I Have Seen |Violet Tweedale
Do you know, dear, if the Thugs and Experts of the Blavatsky region have any special kind of eyes?

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. II: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians |Ambrose Bierce

Blavatsky

/ (bləˈvætskɪ) /

Elena Petrovna (jɪˈljɛnə pɪˈtrɔvnə), called Madame Blavatsky . 1831–91, Russian theosophist; author of Isis Unveiled (1877)