Someone who had known her for years told Davies that she could at times seem like “the beating heart of the Devil.”
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine|Clive Irving|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As Davies tells it, monogamy did not have much of a grip on the upper levels of public life.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine|Clive Irving|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Everything that Davies uncovered led back to one place, the newsroom of the News of The World.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine|Clive Irving|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Davies is a freelancer “so I hide out in my study down in deepest Sussex.”
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine|Clive Irving|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He could, if he chose, go deeper than Davies into his own soul and the truth of how orders were given and executed.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine|Clive Irving|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Davies's brigade fought gallantly to resist Hampton's assaults, which began as soon as the firing on Custer in the rear was heard.
Civil War Experiences|Henry Coddington Meyer
Davies says (p. 20) that shortly before Garrick's time 'a taste for Shakespeare had been revived.
Life Of Johnson, Volume 5|Boswell
Lacy told Davies that the Barrys' salary was 1500 a year (but the cost of their dresses fell heavily on them).
Their Majesties' Servants (Volume 2 of 3)|John Doran
Davies, too, Marlowe's early friend, rose to fame both as a poet and a statesman.
Books Condemned to be Burnt|James Anson Farrer
There is a cottage down on the cliff—it belongs to Mr. Davies, who lives in the Castle.
Beatrice|H. Rider Haggard
British Dictionary definitions for Davies
Davies
/ (ˈdeɪvɪs) /
noun
Sir John. 1569–1626, English poet, author of Orchestra or a Poem of Dancing (1596) and the philosophical poem Nosce Teipsum (1599)
Sir Peter Maxwell. born 1934, British composer whose works include the operas Taverner (1967), The Martyrdom of St Magnus (1977), and Resurrection (1988), nine symphonies, and the ten Strathclyde Concertos; Master of the Queen's Music from 2004
(William) Robertson. 1913–95, Canadian novelist and dramatist. His novels include Leaven of Malice (1954), Fifth Business (1970), The Rebel Angels (1981), What's Bred in the Bone (1985), and The Cunning Man (1994)
W (illiam) H (enry). 1871–1940, Welsh poet, noted also for his Autobiography of a Super-tramp (1908)