10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLIGARTA»
Discover the use of
alligarta in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
alligarta and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Peace, Love and Petrol Bombs
Kroc's autobiography is filled with insights such as “It was not her sex appeal but
the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse
begin to hammer with excitement,” while Alligarta's memoirs bluntly recollect, “
The ...
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
And who can tell, if before the gathering and making up thereof, the alligarta halh
not piss'd thereon ? B. Jons., Bart. F., ii, 6. fALL-NIGHT. A wick set in the middle of
a large cake of wax. Johns. §• Stev. Shak., vii, 146. ALLOW, v. To approve.
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1859
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English
Alligarta, s. (from Spanish la- garto.) The alligator, or crocodile. The urine of this
creature was supposed to render any herb poisonous on which it was shed. And
who can tell, if before the gathering and making up thereof, the alligarta hath not
...
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A glossary; or collection of words, phrases, names and ...
And who can tell, if before the gathering and making up thereof, the alligarta hath
not piss'd thereon ? B. Jons., Bart. F., ii, 6. f ALL-NIGHT. A wick set in the middle
of a large cake of wax. Johns.fyStev. Shak.y vii, 146. ALLOW, v. To approve.
Paraphrase of Erasmus, 1548. ALLIGARTA. The alligator, or crocodile. In
Spanish lagarto. It appears by the following passage, that the urine of this
creature was supposed to render any herb poisonous on which it was shed. And
who can tell, ...
ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S.,, 1859
... tawny weed, tobacco. cokes Brave words! overdo Whose complexion is like the
Indian's that vents it! cokes Are they not brave words, sister? overdo And who can
tell if, before the gathering and making up thereof, the alligarta hath not pissed ...
Ben Jonson, Alexander Leggatt, G.R. Hibbard, 2014
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The alchemist. Catiline, Bartholomew Fair
Brave words! just. Whose complexion is like the _Indian's that _vents it! Cole. Are
they not brave words, sister ? just. And who can tell, if befOre the gathering and
making up thereof, the Alligarta hath not piss'd thereon ? ' X 2 Was. asp-5 ' Was.
Ben Jonson, Peter Whalley, 1756
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
ALLIGARTA. The alligator, or crocodile. In Spanish lasarto. It appears by the
following passage, that the urine of this creature was supposed to render any
herb poisonous on which it was shed. And who can tell, if before the gathering
and ...
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Four Plays of Ben Johnson
And who can tell, if before the gathering and making up thereof, the Alligarta hath
not piss'd thereon ? Waspe. 'Heart! let 'em be brave words, as brave as they will!
an they were all the brave words in a country, how then? Will you away yet, ...
10
500 Years of New Words
The Spanish called these fearsome creatures al lagarto, “the lizard,” which
evolved over the years through allagarto, alagarto, alegarto, alligarta, alligarter
and allegater to alligator. In 1568 John Hortop wrote, “In this river we killed a
monstrous ...
