10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHAFFERY»
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'He's waiting for you there,' said Mrs Chaffery. She held a dismal little oil-lamp,
and they descended a tenebrous spiral structure into an underground breakfast-
room lit by gas that shone through a partially frosted globe with cut-glass stars.
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The H.G. Wells Anthology: A Collection of 149 Novels, ...
He has been something dreadful," said Mrs. Chaffery."You didn't ought to have
written about that mesmerising. And ofallletters that which Jane wrote—there!
Buthe'swaiting and listening—" "Are weto godownstairs, Mums?" asked Ethel.
At first it seems that Chaffery's knowingness and amorality are indeed the
qualities that are needed to survive in the modern world, but Chaffery's actions
and his further speeches cancel this impression. He envies Lewisham's
economic ...
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Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture
The novel itself dramatizes another conflict between different epistemologies:
Chaffery's (fraudulent) spiritualism, and Lewisham's science. The division
between scientific positivism and the metaphysical was less certain in the 1890s,
when the ...
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Dud Dudley's Metallum Martis: or, Iron made with pit-coale, ...
And the engine to raise the hammer for the finery and chaffery by the help of one
man, saueth the charge of the milnes for the finery and chaffery : and if the engine
, finery and chaffery be set up in the place where the furnace to make Sow-Iron ...
Dud Dudley, John Nock Bagnall, 1665
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Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Comprehending a Complete ...
2. To exchange (Spenser). CHA'FFERER. s. ((mm chaffer.) A buyer; > bargainer.
CHA'FFERN. s. (from cschauffer, Fr. to heat.) A vessel for heating water. CHA'
FFERY. s. (from chaffer.) Traffick (Spenser). Chaffery, in the iron works, the name
of ...
John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, 1813
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The poetical works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount: Lion ...
So Chaucer ; " Goddes of love, and to thy celsitude." Certes, truly, verily, surely. Fr
. certes : O. Eng. certes, Chaucer, Spenser ; and so Shakspeare : " Certes she did
; the kitchen vestal scorned you." Chaffery, merchandise, wares : Also, traffic ...
Sweeps in a truck, swells out of luck, Laughery, chaffery, grin, grin; Travelling
show, dwarf hid below, Eye on his giantess' gin, gin. Twiggery, swiggery, shinery,
finery, laughery, chaffery, pokery, jokery; Down to the Derby as all of us go, These
...
William Schwenck Gilbert, James Ellis, 1980
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The Logic of Fantasy: H.G. Wells and Science Fiction
Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's ...
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A Quartette of Comedies
He has been something dreadful," said Mrs. Chaffery. " You didn't ought to have
written about that mesmerising. And of all letters that which Jane wrote — there !
But he's waiting and listening " " Are we to go downstairs, Mums ?" asked Ethel.
Herbert George Wells, 1928
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHAFFERY»
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Belmont Tavern, Cathedral Square's Upscale Lounge
Besides Whiskey Bar, Vituccui also owns Murphy's Irish Pub and Chaffery's Pub. Belmont Tavern is his fourth venture and by then he had the ... «urbanmilwaukee, Jan 14»
We Will Rock You at Ladymead Community School, Taunton
Principal cast members, who were all aged between 11-16, included: Sam Baker, Claire Crocker, Jess Chaffery, David Wooldridge, Ashley ... «Somerset County Gazette, Mar 10»
