10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOSKINESS»
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boskiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
boskiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Invertebrata Enigmatica: Giant Spiders, Dangerous Insects, ...
She told me. It was a suitably unfrequented path. So presently I strolled thither;
and seated myself under the trees in a bosky dell. Now, there is a quality in
boskiness not inappropriate to romantic thoughts. Boskiness, cigarettes, a soft
afternoon ...
She told me. It was a suitably unfrequented path. So presently I strolled thither;
and seated myself under the trees in a bosky dell. Now, there is a quality in
boskiness not inappropriate to romantic thoughts. Boskiness, cigarettes, a soft
afternoon ...
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers, 2012
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Up at a bosken (farmhouse) they'll get among the servant girls. boskiness, subs, (
common). —Astateof drunkenness ; hence bosky = fuddled with drink ; bemused :
see screwed. 1748. T.Dyche, Dictionary (5ed.). Bosky (a.), fuddled, half, or ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
To this general boskiness, I have said, there was one exception. It was Jones. In
fact, with all his faults, I never, on any one occasion, saw Jones overcome with
liquor; which was the more remarkable, because he got more than any other ...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.
... and shrubs, and grouped in the very confusion of boskiness and romance, with
wondrous overshadowing hill-screens as occur at the Trossacks at the head of
Strath-carne, and on the river Karnnock ? or such closely approaching and sheer
...
Beyond, on the very summit of the eminence, is the wood itself, a little scrubby
patch of some dozen acres, not cut, carved, and dissected, by the hand of
landscape or other gardener, but left in its natural boskiness, brushiness,
wilderness, ...
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, 1844
Should he do so to excess, he does not become, like ordinary mortals,
intoxicated, but “fresh ;” he may advance to “boskiness,” or get “ tight screwed ;”
and, in that case, the next morning finds him “fishy” or “ fowsty about the gills ;”
then ensues ...
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A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected
We will put the Greek first, both in justice to it, and because (to own a whim of
ours) the glimmering and thorny look of the Greek characters gives, in our eyes,
something of a boskiness to one's pages. A page of a Greek pastoral is the next ...
Leigh Hunt, Joseph Edward Babson, 1870
CHAPTER. VI. YANK. BOAT. versus. UBOAT. It was theturnofthetideand the turn
oftheday on the “quiet waters of the River Lee.” Pale bluecolumnsof smoke rose
above the verdant boskiness whichmaskedthe squat brown cabins where the ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Incorrect for BOS-KEN, as bosman perhaps is for BOS-MAN. boskiness .
Fuddlement; state of intoxication: from ca 1880; ob. Coll. Ex: bosky . Dazed or
fuddled; mildly drunk: 1730, Bailey; ob. Possibly dial., and perhaps ex bosky,
wooded, ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOSKINESS»
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boskiness is used in the context of the following news items.
Suburban serenity in Cork
... of maturity means there are more old trees in Hettyfield, Douglas, than in many recreation parks and with huge site sizes, boskiness abounds. «Irish Examiner, Aug 14»
The Urban Beekeeper and Bee Journal: review
... of his bees' work and the remains of summer flowers and sunlight, and autumn foxy boskiness. It is an arresting and strikingly familiar feeling ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 12»
Renoir at The Frick: Go See “Dance at Bougival”
The background is, again unusually for him, strongly engaged and engaging: people making merry in blue-green boskiness. Necessarily hung ... «New Yorker, Feb 12»
Babur, London
... cooking has allowed the meat to remain moist and the wild mushroom kedgeree is, in its woodland boskiness, just the right accompaniment. «Foodepedia, Jun 10»
