O'BRIEN

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• O'BRIEN (noun)
  The noun O'BRIEN has 1 sense:

1. Irish writer (born in 1932)

  Familiarity information: O'BRIEN used as a noun is very rare.

• O'BRIEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Irish writer (born in 1932)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Edna O'Brien; O'Brien

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

I guess Hands and O'Brien turned soft.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then I looked around me, and as the ship was now, in a sense, my own, I began to think of clearing it from its last passenger—the dead man, O'Brien.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“O'Brien there is in another world, and may be watching us.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I never seen sich dirty luck, not I. There was this here O'Brien now—he's dead, ain't he?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

O'Brien, though still quite a young man, was very bald.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His eyes never met mine; they kept wandering to and fro, up and down, now with a look to the sky, now with a flitting glance upon the dead O'Brien.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Cap'n, said he at length with that same uncomfortable smile, here's my old shipmate, O'Brien; s'pose you was to heave him overboard.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This man, he began, nodding feebly at the corpse —O'Brien were his name, a rank Irelander—this man and me got the canvas on her, meaning for to sail her back.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In addition to all these I can remember that Faustina O'Brien came there at least once and the Baedeker girls and young Brewer who had his nose shot off in the war and Mr. Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita Fitz-Peters, and Mr. P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip with a man reputed to be her chauffeur, and a prince of something whom we called Duke and whose name, if I ever knew it, I have forgotten.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)