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Definition of Robert E. Peary
1. Noun. United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert E. Peary
Literary usage of Robert E. Peary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1907)
"... THE LATEST PORTRAIT OF Robert E. Peary iact that he married American girl from
u£ornia. After completing the preparatory part of his education, ..."
2. Famous Living Americans, with Portraits edited by Mary Griffin Webb, Edna Lenore Webb (1914)
"Robert E. Peary says: "I have always, been proud that I was born an American,
but never so proud as when on that biting, sunlit Arctic day I saw the Stars ..."
3. Michael Heilprin and His Sons: A Biography by Gustav Pollak (1912)
"... the beginning of those intimate relations between Angelo Heilprin and Robert E.
Peary which so largely influenced the career of that great explorer. ..."
4. Michael Heilprin and His Sons: A Biography by Gustav Pollak (1912)
"... the beginning of those intimate relations between Angelo Heilprin and Robert E.
Peary which so largely influenced the career of that great explorer. ..."
5. The Great White North: The Story of Polar Exploration from the Earliest by Helen Saunders Wright (1910)
"... CHAPTER XXIII Robert E. Peary.—The man. — First visit to the Arctic, 1886.— Other
journeys, 1891. — Independence Bay, Greenland. ..."
6. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"Aeronautical Map and Landing Places Committee: Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary,
Chairman; Bion J. Arnold, AH Acker- mans, August Belmont, James Gordon Bennett, ..."
7. Oral English in Secondary Schools by William Palmer Smith (1913)
"By Robert E. Peary The last march northward ended at ten o'clock on the forenoon
of April 6. I had now made the five marches planned, and my reckoning ..."
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