Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word SORLEY

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Definitions of SORLEY

1. A male given name
2. A surname.

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Examples of Using SORLEY in a Sentence

• Born in Powis House Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of philosopher and University Professor William Ritchie Sorley.
• Although the canon continues to be challenged, the texts most frequently taught in schools and universities are lyrics by Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen; poems by Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, Charles Sorley, David Jones and Isaac Rosenberg are also widely anthologized.
• Sorley Boy's connection to other Irish Roman Catholic lords was complicated, but also culturally and familiarly strong: for example, he married Mary O'Neill, the daughter of Conn O'Neill.
• Hendry - Violet Jacob - William Jeffrey - Maurice Lindsay - Norman MacCaig - Hugh MacDiarmid - Pittendrigh MacGillivray - Albert MacKie - Hamish Maclaren - Sorley MacLean - Robert MacLellan - Donald MacRae - William Montgomerie - Edwin Muir - R.
• Created by NVA, a Scottish environmental arts company, directed by Angus Farquhar (formerly of Test Dept) and designed by a team including "
• Vincent Millay - Wilfred Owen - Sylvia Townsend Warner - Aldous Huxley - Robert Graves - Charles Hamilton Sorley - Edgell Rickword - Roy Campbell - Kenneth Slessor - Merrill Moore - Patrick Kavanagh - Norman Cameron - William Empson - W.
• He also sketched and painted watercolours on trips to the Highlands with Denis Peploe and Sorley MacLean.
• Plunkett - Madeleine Caron Rock - Lady Margaret Sackville - Siegfried Sassoon - Edward Shanks - Charles Hamilton Sorley - Sir Cecil Spring Rice - James Stephens - Edward Tennant - Edward Thomas - Francis Thompson - Herbert Trench - W.
• Poets also frequently appear as characters in his novels, always on the side of good: Sappho in Wolfwinter (1972); Robert Herrick in Will-o-the-Wisp (1977, serialized 1974); a fictionalized Charles Sorley in The Goat Without Horns (1971); and Thomas Chatterton in The Not-World (1975).
• While a pupil at Oban High School, she was inspired by many of her teachers, especially her English teacher, the poet Iain Crichton Smith, and John Maclean, the Rector (Headmaster) of the school, a native of the Island of Raasay, a classical scholar, and the brother of poet Sorley Maclean, from whom she learned a large number of Gaelic songs and to whom she dedicated her seminal book Songs of Gaelic Scotland (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2005).

• We are given to understand that a nobleman named Sorley Boy MacDonnell and others, who be of the Scotch-Irish race .

• Blantyre was responsible for the prisoner, a son of Sorley Boy MacDonnell, and his wife and servants from August 1596.
• The work contained music by Geir Jenssen and Paul Mounsey, live performance by Gaelic singer Ann Martin and recordings of the works of Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean.
• In April 1583 the MacDonnells, led by Sorley Boy MacDonnell, who had been fighting in the McQuillan-O'Cahan feud on the side of the McQuillan clan decided to backstab their allies.
• After the battle the MacDonnells withdrew to the mountain of Trostan, which overlooks Cushendall, and Sorley Boy MacDonnell was entertained by MacAuley, Lord of the Glens.
• Shane O'Neill marches from Antrim through the mountains by Clogh to the neighbourhood of Ballycastle, where he routs the clan MacDonnell of Antrim and Dunnyveg at the Battle of Glentasie (2 May) and takes Sorley Boy MacDonnell and James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg, prisoner, the latter dying of wounds soon afterwards.
• An All-State quarterback at Big Spring High School, Sorley quarterbacked the Huskers to a 27-9-1 record and wins in two bowl games.
• The main army of MacDonnells of Antrim, led by Sorley Boy MacDonnell and stationed at Ballycastle, had witnessed the event taking place on Rathlin Island, where their families and valuables had been lodged for safety.
• The Sorley MacLean Quaich between Portree High School and Plockton High School is one competition that tries to fill the gap.
• Many went on to have careers in the business such as the studio's engineer, Frank Reader, whose band Trashcan Sinatras bought Sorley out following their signing to Go! Discs in 1989.

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