Smollett

[ smol-it ]

/ ˈsmɒl ɪt /

noun

Tobias George,1721–71, English novelist.

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Nor should Smollett, because he happens to be a famous novelist, be accepted as a judge of the strategy of the expedition.

Argentina |W. A. Hirst
Taken all in all, Smollett accepted his good fortune with conspicuous moderation.

Tobias Smollett |Oliphant Smeaton
He assisted Blackwell and Smollett in their difficulties and became the acknowledged patriarch of literature.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 |Various
The Latin is miserably bad90—as Coleridge said, such as poor Smollett, who was an excellent scholar, would have been ashamed of.

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. I (of 2) |Dorothy Wordsworth

I want Smollett's Works, for the sake of his incomparable humour.

The Letters of Robert Burns |Robert Burns

British Dictionary definitions for smollett

Smollett

/ (ˈsmɒlɪt) /

noun

Tobias George. 1721–71, Scottish novelist, whose picaresque satires include Roderick Random (1748), Peregrine Pickle (1751), and Humphry Clinker (1771)

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