Notabilia: Or, Curious and Amusing Facts about Many Things, Explained and IllustratedGriffith and Farran, 1872 - 384 páginas |
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... , 1830. The word was occasionally used in its literal sense by the elder writers , particularly by Sir Thomas Browne , but had become quite obsolete , when it was revived in the following sentence TERMS , PHRASES , AND SAYINGS . 9.
... , 1830. The word was occasionally used in its literal sense by the elder writers , particularly by Sir Thomas Browne , but had become quite obsolete , when it was revived in the following sentence TERMS , PHRASES , AND SAYINGS . 9.
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... become slang to those who use them . - Saturday Review . OXFORD SLANG . The word " bosh " as almost synonymous with the word " rubbish " is well known . Oxford claims the credit of having invented the verb " to bosh . " Its meaning is ...
... become slang to those who use them . - Saturday Review . OXFORD SLANG . The word " bosh " as almost synonymous with the word " rubbish " is well known . Oxford claims the credit of having invented the verb " to bosh . " Its meaning is ...
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... becoming courtesy to Lord Crawfurd , said , — " Tis not Lord Crawfurd , but Lord Boyd , Of habits rude and manners void , Who , like a bull among the rye , Cries " Baugh ! " at folks as he goes by . ' A capital reproof , and one no ...
... becoming courtesy to Lord Crawfurd , said , — " Tis not Lord Crawfurd , but Lord Boyd , Of habits rude and manners void , Who , like a bull among the rye , Cries " Baugh ! " at folks as he goes by . ' A capital reproof , and one no ...
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... become a designation of the whole country , as John Bull has for England . ” — Dictionary of Americanisms , by John Russell Bartlett , 1849 . In the Poetical Works of John Trumball , LL.D. , pub- lished at Hartford ( U.S. ) , 1820 , in ...
... become a designation of the whole country , as John Bull has for England . ” — Dictionary of Americanisms , by John Russell Bartlett , 1849 . In the Poetical Works of John Trumball , LL.D. , pub- lished at Hartford ( U.S. ) , 1820 , in ...
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... become familiar in every mouth . " Skedaddle , " for example , must have been smoul- dering , as it were , in some corner of America until the crisis arose which imperatively required its use . It expressed with such delicacy the ...
... become familiar in every mouth . " Skedaddle , " for example , must have been smoul- dering , as it were , in some corner of America until the crisis arose which imperatively required its use . It expressed with such delicacy the ...
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Página 183 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of" bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
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Página 205 - I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up...
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Página 259 - Shakespeare was godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children, and, after the christening, being in a deep study, Jonson came to cheer him up, and asked him why he was so melancholy. ' No faith, Ben,' says he, ' not I, but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolved at last.' ' I prythee, what ? ' says he. ' I* faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a dozen good Latin (latten) spoons, and thou shalt translate them.
Página 201 - For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Página 34 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty : For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: He woundeth, and his hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Página 282 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Página 64 - In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town — the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and...