Definition of Dorothy L. Sayers

1. Noun. English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957).

Exact synonyms: Dorothy Leigh Sayers, Dorothy Sayers, Sayers
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorothy L. Sayers

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Dorking fowls
Dormand-Prince method
Dormition
Dorno rays
Doronicum
Doroteo Arango
Dorothea
Dorothea Lange
Dorotheanthus
Dorotheanthus bellidiformis
Dorothy
Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Dixer
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy L. Sayers (current term)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Dorothy Sayers
Dorothy bag
Dorothy bags
Dorset
Dorset's culture egg medium
Dorsoduro
Dortmund
Dorylinae
Doryopteris

Literary usage of Dorothy L. Sayers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... used especially when something criminal is suggested: Was Mary Thoday... really after all concerned in the theft? —Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, ..."

2. Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation by Edith Balas (1995)
"401 Reitzenstein, Hellenistic Mystery Religions, 275-6. 402 Dante, the Divine Comedy, (Canto XXXIII v. 136-145.) trans. Dorothy L. Sayers (New York: Penguin ..."

3. Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation by Edith Balas (1995)
"401 Reitzenstein, Hellenistic Mystery Religions, 275-6. 402 Dante, the Divine Comedy, (Canto XXXIII v. 136-145.) trans. Dorothy L. Sayers (New York: Penguin ..."

4. The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567) by Jean Fernel (2003)
"Canelón too in the "Chanson de Roland" was executed thi (Dorothy L. Sayers, trans. [Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957], stanza 289), and as late 1757 at Paris, ..."

5. Working with Oneness by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (2002)
"Dorothy L. Sayers, Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, 11. 85-87. 2. Quoted by Bhatnagar, Dimensions of Classical Sufi Thought, p. 92. 3. The alchemists understood the ..."

6. Best Loved Hotels 2007: Britain and Irelandby Best Loved Hotels by Best Loved Hotels (2006)
"... legacy is immense: Rupert Brooke, Johri Bunyan, Lewis Carrol, DH Lawrence, AE Housman, Dorothy L Sayers, William Shakespeare and Alfred Lord Tennyson. ..."

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