10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAA-LAMB»
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baa-lamb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
baa-lamb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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One Fluffy
Baa Lamb, Ten Hairy Caterpillars
Praise for MOO-COW, KUNG-FU COW: "The book that wins best title of the year" Charlie Higson. ELEPHANT WELLYPHANT and OCTOPUS SOCKTOPUS were both shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize
Te baa-lamb — vat is he ? ” “The baa-lamb,” replied Mr. Pip, “is a gregarious
creature, who dines on Saturday at two o'clock, in company with others of the
Burlington flock, which, meeting in a pleasant pasturage in the neighborhood of
the ...
Burlington baa-lambs, Van L You must he a baa-lamb ! " "He-he-he!" snorted Mr.
Clym. " Te baa-lamb — vat is he ? " " The baa-lamb," replied Mr. Pip, "is a
gregarious creature, who dines on Saturday at two o'clock, in company with
others of ...
Edward Everett Hale, 1873
When George "Baa Baa" Lamb, the caretaker of the Tree Theatre, is found murdered and drenched in stage blood, Beth finds herself drawn into a series of terrifying events, and learns that one of her own friends possesses enough hate to kill.
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D. H. Lawrence, Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze, John Worthen, 2006
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
baa-lamb . A lamb (cf. BAA-BAA): nursery coll: C.19–20. baas . A master, a
manager, a head man of any sort: South African coll: 1785, Sparrman, A Voyage
to the Cape of Good Hope...from 1772 to 1776. Ex Dutch baas, master, foreman.
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Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
In William Jerdan's often ponderous Literary Gazette — a stubborn weekly
journal which finally yielded to the Athenaeum — the "Album Verses" were made
the excuse for an attack on " the Baa-Lamb School ". Southey, who had last been
in ...
Charles Lamb, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 1933
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Charles
Lamb and His Contemporaries
In William Jerdan's often ponderous Literary Gazette — a stubborn weekly
journal which finally yielded to the Athenaeum — the "Album Verses" were made
the excuse for an attack on " the Baa-Lamb School ". Southey, who had last been
in ...
Charles Lamb, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 1964
Oh hee and baa birdie Oh hee and baa lamb, Oh hee and baa birdie, My bonnie
wee lamb— Nasrene gently awakened Homer after Miss Letty refused to say
anything else. Samson helped him sit up, “That singing was alright, Homes,” he ...
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That Dangerous Figure: Charles
Lamb and the Critics
... 71; by Birrell, 55; by Blunden, 94; by Chasles, 39; by Empson, 139; by Gosse,
71; by Hopkins, 48; by Lewes, 48; by Lytton, 33; byOrage, 104; by Pater, 50; 121-
122,126,135-137139, 146, 159-160; Baa- Lamb School," 21; biography, 12, 23, ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BAA-LAMB»
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baa-lamb is used in the context of the following news items.
Queen Elizabeth 'wants to make return visit to Ireland'
cooed Sabina, as she gave the baa-lamb a hug and nuzzled its cute face. And she was equally taken with an enclosure of pigs, and enthused ... «Irish Independent, Apr 14»
John Cole: 'An institution cherished by the viewing public'
'The TUC', he notes bizarrely, 'was not Margaret Thatcher's favourite baa-lamb': but he does not trouble to ask himself why not. The odd thing is ... «Spectator.co.uk, Nov 13»
Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman, 99 mins (15)
... and you wonder when Gerwig will turn up with an attendant baa-lamb. At one point, there's a lecture about the Dandy Tradition in Literature, ... «The Independent, Apr 12»
Bleak encounters
Replace “poetry”, with “sunshine” or “moonlight” or “pretty baa-lamb” and it will sound genial, plausible and still stubbornly uninformative. «Financial Times, Nov 11»
Christmas Books: Children
... for word acrobatics and colour collision in the manic pop-up counting book One Fluffy Baa-Lamb, Ten Hairy Caterpillars (Scholastic, £10.99). «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 10»
