10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOILED SHIRT»
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boiled shirt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
boiled shirt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
Whitfield was standing jest like pap said, in his boiled shirt and his black hat and
pants and necktie . . .'” (William Faulkner, “Shingles for the Lord,” 1943) boiler (1)
A saucepan for cooking. (2) A whiskey still. (3) The stomach. “He ate so much ...
Since colored shirts could not be boiled without danger to their brightness, a
white shirt was called a boiled shirt. Grandfather, for reasons best known to
himself, would never wear anything but a boiled shirt. Aunt Jane was an exquisite
...
Anne Gertrude Sneller, Claire Myers Owens, 1993
3
David McCullough Great Moments in History E-book Box Set: ...
A boiled shirt here is as rare as mince pie in Africa.” Boiled shirt or no, he went to
work, concentrating on human-interest stories. He wrote of walking over
thousands of spilled cigars and of a pretty, young relief worker named Miss
Hinkley of ...
4
Pilots: Pilot schooners of North America and Great Britain
The game in the cabin was tcsumed at once, and the 'boiled' shirt was once more
folded up and laid away carefully in the locker, the precariousness of steamer-
catching is well illustrated by this matter of dressing to board them. ...There is a ...
I've seen you drive through here with a carriage and a span of fine horses and a
black with a boiled shirt. Now you're driving a milk wagon.” I stopped just a
moment to reply, “You are right, my friend, but there's just one difference between
us.
6
Blasting & Bombardiering
'For the sake of your car-reerV he would boom impressively at me, 'you must —
four times a week — make up your mind to put on a boiled shirt!' But the boiled
shirt game did not seem to me worth the candle. Adam and Eve was not my first ...
7
Wondrous Times on the Frontier
Californian Lemuel McKeeby complained that the building of schoolhouses and
the coming of teachers "meant that the miners should now put on a boiled shirt of
a Sunday." The building of a schoolhouse and church, he added, required the ...
8
The Yellow Briar: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian ...
John Trueman was a teetotaller, and always wore a boiled shirt.Jack told me he
wore it to bed. Himself was a stocky, middle-aged man; and no doubt he died in
the honest belief that he had always been the complete master of his household.
In the dark it was hard to get the studs out of his boiled shirt. He grabbed the
boiled shirt with both hands and ripped out the buttonholes. "Now come in here,
goddam you. I love you, you bitch Doris." The girl was trembling. When he
grabbed ...
So, without removing the body from the coffin, Sharpe raised the boiled shirt over
the corpse's face and removed the neck, chest, and abdominal organs with a
long, curved knife. As a few of the mourners had begun to gather in the front room
, ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOILED SHIRT»
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boiled shirt is used in the context of the following news items.
Bel Ami's Costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux talks about Robert …
This period is a very transitional period between the boiled shirt and the pleated shirt so we've done a combination of the two. We've ... «Thinking of Rob, Jan 12»
Western Wednesdays: 'The Train Robbers'
He had to have plotted it out, trusting that the audience would laugh even harder when they remembered her boiled shirt and tight pants. «The Flickcast, Mar 10»
Revisiting John Cheever's Suburban Unrest
The last is a figure of mystery, a man in a worn polo coat beneath which show the striped pants and boiled shirt of a tuxedo. These are the only ... «NPR, Mar 09»
