10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTEPRANDIAL»
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anteprandial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
anteprandial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
In the Mist of the Mountains
CHAPTER. V. ANTEPRANDIAL. VISITORS. He looked and beheld a small
maiden clad in a holland frock, with a white linen hat on the back of her
goldbrown curls, instead of being set in orthodox fashion upon her head. Her
white shoes and ...
2
Roget's Descriptive Word Finder
... rank antecibal: happening before meals; before dinner; anteprandial
antejentacular: before breakfast antelucan: before dawn antepaschal: before
Passover or Easter anteprandial: before dinner; antecibal anterior: in front of;
toward the front; ...
3
A Comedy of Masks A Novel
... and after declining an offer of the back seats of the carriage, which was already
waiting at the door to take Mrs. Sylvester and her daughter for their anteprandial
drive in the Park, and expressing their regret that they had not seen Charles, ...
Ernest Christopher Dowson,
2012
&c. ; and Juan de Vergara, who dined with him, has recorded the extent and
rapidity of these anteprandial epistles. By the bye, Martyr is not, as Mr. Prescott
imagines, a patronymic. Pietro Martire became a common Milanese baptismal
name ...
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Across the Atlantic, by the author of 'Sketches of Cantabs'.
the English merchant's, or lawyer's, day admits of these two principal divisions, to
wit, the anteprandial and the post-prandial hours. Dinner in the bosom of an
American family can only be compared to a religious rite or ceremony, in this
respect ...
John Delaware Lewis,
1851
6
A Dictionary of Dentistry
Examples: antenatal (before birth), anteprandial (before meals). antealveolism n.
A condition in which the *alveolar process is normal in height and width but is
positioned anteriorly on the respective jaw base. Compare RETROALVEOLISM.
At night, in your slippers and without a collar, with a pipe in your mouth and a
good book in your hand, a solitary glass of whisky and soda is eminently
desirable, but the anteprandial cocktail needs the sparkle of conversation.' 'You
seem to be ...
W. Somerset Maugham,
2011
8
The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a
fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament. PRECIPITATE, adj
. Anteprandial. Precipitate in all, this sinner Took action first, and then his dinner.
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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial. Precipitate in all, this sinner Took action first,
and then his dinner. Judibras. PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things
occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be 262 THE
COLLECTED ...
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He was also one of the first 'joggers', startling people by suddenly taking off at
high speed while walking in London parks, or in his garden on what he called '
anteprandial circumgyrations'. He once confessed he couldn't swim or whistle,
but ...
John Lloyd, John Mitchinson,
2011