Davy himself has said he was not spared land seizure and has given up 140,000 acres to the government.
Chelsy Davy, Prince Harry's Hard-Partying Royal Wedding Date|Tom Sykes|April 26, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Over the next few months Davy Rothbart will be touring around America to promote his new book, My Heart Is an Idiot.
The Idiot Diaries: Davy Rothbart Launches His 79-City Book Tour|Davy Rothbart|September 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays By Davy Rothbart A young essayist is often a victim of his own open heart.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Aug. 26, 2012|Nicholas Mancusi|August 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
By the way, Davy, you haven't happened by any chance to meet him?
The Crossing|Winston Churchill
For this and his former work the name of Davy ought for ever to be inseparably united with the discovery of chemical electricity.
The Royal Institution|Bence Jones
Observe, then, that Davy made his epochal experiment of melting ice by friction when he was a youth of twenty.
A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams
Like others, in their first contact with midgets, he was giving Davy the status of a child.
David Lannarck, Midget|George S. Harney
There is Davy, who seems honest, could we not trust him to conduct us and our two poor women to our friends the Deverells?
The Kangaroo Hunters|Anne Bowman
British Dictionary definitions for Davy
Davy
/ (ˈdeɪvɪ) /
noun
Sir Humphry. 1778–1829, English chemist who isolated sodium, magnesium, chlorine, and other elements and suggested the electrical nature of chemical combination. He invented the Davy lampSee Davy lamp
British chemist who was a pioneer of electrochemistry. By means of electrolysis Davy isolated several elements, including sodium and potassium (1807), and barium, boron, calcium, and magnesium (1808). He also proved that diamonds are a form of carbon.