Monro

[ mən-rō′ ]

Family of Scottish anatomists and educators, including Alexander, (1697-1767), a renowned professor of anatomy at Edinburgh University (from 1720), who helped establish Edinburgh as a center of medical training and his son Alexander, (1733-1817), who worked on methods of surgical anesthesia.

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Miss Monro was a relief; they were glad of her as a third person, unconscious of the secret which constrained them.

A Dark Night's Work |Elizabeth Gaskell
Miss Monro would gladly have made a festival of her recovery, and have had her conveyed into the unused drawing-room.

A Dark Night's Work |Elizabeth Gaskell
He had sent on as many men as he felt able to spare some short time before, in response to an appeal from Colonel Monro.

French and English |Evelyn Everett-Green
Miss Monro was, perhaps, very wise in proposing the translation of a difficult part of Dante for a distraction to Ellinor.

A Dark Night's Work |Elizabeth Gaskell

The use of "iron" for "weapon" is, as Mr. Monro says, an anachronism.

The World of Homer |Andrew Lang

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