10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOWSILY»
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blowsily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
blowsily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Heroines in obscurity. 2nd ser. of 'Papers for thoughtful ...
Strong as the latter war, she believed her arms would be pinched black and blue,
and her whole body pulled to the ground, before she could free herself from Mrs.
Whyte, who happened to be an overgrown, blowsily fair beauty, quite as tall as ...
2
The Italian's Passionate Revenge (Mills & Boon Modern)
This was a woman in her thirties, attractive in a flashy way, wearing expensive
black clothes that somehow managed to look blowsily overdone. It occurred to
Elise that this stranger too had been regarding her oddly, with a kind of
belligerence, ...
3
Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin ...
... tonal contrast to Dream, the diction of Mitchell's novel is marked by extreme
unrestraint: verbose, infelicitous phrases such as “blowsily mammalian women” (
49), “strange, grassy fluffment” (94), and “sier- raed toweringness” (161)
proliferate.
4
Arrival: Key Speeches, Reflections and Historical Context
Ferns in the streets shifted blowsily with the wind. “Where is anyone from? One
way or another, we are all travelers in the Overworld.” Ned looked closer at Chan
-ti Beppu and made sure she was not joking. “The space inside lynks? People ...
5
Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories
Blowsily, frowsily, comfortably, toothlessly, Mrs. Candleton was sleeping away
the afternoon in her hair-curlers and her pinafore. But on the evening I called for
Stella the kitchen was empty. I rang the bell four or five times and then, getting no
...
Herbert Ernest Bates, 1989
6
The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National ...
... by their inversion, the truths to which he will commit himself: Plaster-cast stuff of
the Greek antiques, Discobolus, blowsily mammalian Venus, Pallas Athene -
rather a dirty lot they had been, the Greeks, though so many clean things
survived.
7
The Gardener's Bedside Reader
The edges of the segments can be unadorned or blowsily ruffled, finely crimped
or widely fluted. There are doubles with extra segments in all sorts of
arrangements — from knots at the center of the flower to graduated hose-in-hose
patterns in ...
Kari Cornell, Diane Ackerman, Michael Pollan
... sharp-pointed pair of scissors through the carpet and saw the bottom but right
away knew it's not the bottom but only another surface, un- smoother than the
one I stand on, blowsily blistering like the skin of a shrunken egg, under which
there ...
9
It Happened in Collection... (Mills & Boon e-Book Collections)
Thiswas a woman inher thirties, attractive ina flashy way,wearing expensive
black clothes thatsomehow managed to look blowsily overdone. It
occurredtoElise that this stranger too had been regardingher oddly, withakind
ofbelligerence, ...
Sara Craven, Julia James, Lucy Gordon, 2014
Sitting blowsily in the teachers' room, standing dully in the playground,
patronizing, wretched, dull, deafto hope and with no thought ofa way out, they
groused helplessly, in their own minds condemned to servitude for life—till sixty-
five—and ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOWSILY»
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blowsily is used in the context of the following news items.
New exhibition: Savage Beauty
... feathers dipped in golden paint, while knife-pleated and torn tulle resemble roses turning from blowsily ripe to decaying ruin (see image 2). «The Economist, Mar 15»
Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco, review: 'solid'
This greatly talented but infuriatingly erratic Russian soprano runs true to form, being blowsily approximate and all over the place in the early ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
Review: Meeting the Devil: A Book of Memoir from the London …
After half an hour, the intellectual titan emerges “blowsily” from a back room and Castle timidly hopes they haven't disturbed her nap. Sontag is ... «The Independent, Nov 13»
Paris fashion week: Raf Simons says it with flowers at Dior
Ropes of lilac wisteria next to thickly budded cords of pink orchids; red bougainvillea swaying blowsily in the breeze next to stiff birds of ... «The Guardian, Sep 13»
On A Tiny Sicilian Islet, A World Of Big Questions To Answer
The men were virile and worried; the women came indomitable and blowsily maternal; the kids were scrappy little survivors getting by under the ... «NPR, Jul 13»
The Formidable Friendship of Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt
McCarthy, played by Janet McTeer, is blowsily silly—and though she could be wicked and subversively funny, McCarthy was far from silly. «New Yorker, Jun 13»
Beyoncé's bold performance steals Obama's inauguration show
Kelly Clarkson's “My Country, 'Tis of Thee” was blowsily overblown in TV talent-show style, missing every mark of emotion. They were all just ... «The Independent, Jan 13»
The X Factor 2011: finals week three - closing time for Sami Brookes
In the Saturday night live show, themed "rock week", Sami blowsily sang Turn Back Time by Cher and was pilloried by head judge Gary Barlow, ... «Radio Times, Oct 11»
Why the Israel Philharmonic isn't world-class but the Rotterdam …
And as for the rest of the show, it started with some Webern that was blowsily delivered, and continued with a Debussy Iberia so stylistically ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 11»
Chic garden escapes in the Loire Valley in France
And for planting at the base of a wall, Pierre de Ronsard; M Chassine has it flowering blowsily at the base of his farmhouse. Public garden. «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 10»
