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Cavell   /kəvˈɛl/   Listen
Cavell

noun
1.
English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915).  Synonyms: Edith Cavell, Edith Louisa Cavell.






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"Cavell" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cashwell Gosper Cassian Samuel Casson John Casp Anthony Casper Michael Cassey John Castel Joseph Castile Thomas Castle (2) John Caswell (3) Baptist Cavalier Francis Cavalier George Cavalier James Cavalier Thomas Cavalier Joseph Augustus Cavell Gasnito Cavensa Thomas Caveral Pierre Cawan John Cawrier John Cawrse Edward Cayman Anthony Cayner Oliver Cayaran John Cerbantin —— Chabbott Perrie Chalier Samuel Chalkeley Hurbin Challigne John Challoner William Challoner Pierre Chalore Benjamin Chamberlain ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge

... could ever have looked in the face again, had we forsaken her. Then came the hammer blows that forged our will—Louvain, Aerschot, Rheims, the air-raids on our defenceless towns, the senseless murder of our women and children, the Bryce report, the Lusitania, the execution of Edith Cavell—the whole stupefying revelation of the German hatred and greed towards this country, and of the qualities latent in the German character. Now we know—that it is they, or we—since they willed it so. And ...
— The War on All Fronts: England's Effort - Letters to an American Friend • Mrs. Humphry Ward



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