10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLODHOPPING»
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clodhopping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
clodhopping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Clodhopping. Collector. There was soon to be a marked change in my way of life
as my state of solitude was about to end. It all began at a dinner en famille at Sir
J. P. and Lady Kailash Srivastava's where I met their daughter Susheela, who ...
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Baily's magazine of sports and pastimes
What amuses them is the mutton-fisted groom, or the clodhopping countryman on
some scared animal that cannot be induced to face the gorse, the crowd, and the
row — whose rider loses his temper as the laughter gets louder, and the chaff ...
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Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes
What amuses them is the mutton-fisted groom, or the clodhopping countryman on
some scared animal that cannot be induced to face the gorse, the crowd, and the
row — whose rider loses his temper as the laughter gets louder, and the chaff ...
230, lines 1 1-12 "Get up, you clodhopping b h, or I'll kill you, by all that's certain!"
ARKANSAS EDITION Chapter Fifteen, p. 155, lines 23-24 "Get up, you
clodhopping beast, or I'll kill you, by all that's certain!" ORIGINAL EDITION
Volume I, ...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... dope, dumbbell, dummy, lame-brain cloddish adj syn BOORISH, churlish,
clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, loutish, uncivilized, uncultured, unpolished,
unrefined clodhopper n 1 syn RUSTIC, ||apple knocker, bumpkin, chawbacon,
hayseed, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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Stalin's Gold: A Frank Merlin Novel
I don't care about your background. I didn't care about hers and neither did she.
She was very down to earth. Had to be, didn't she, to marry a lowly, clodhopping
copper like myself?” “What does clodhopping mean, Frank?” “Hmm... never mind.
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Fluke Family Fortune: Book One in the Saga of Maynerd Dumsted
A pleasant smile rapidly creased his face. “Hi, Cindee. Am I beat. I didn't think
clodhopping would be such hard work.” “Well, I could have told you it wasn't
worth the taking,” she condescended. “Clodhopping, I swear! Look at you,
Maynerd.
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Lines of Enquiry: Studies in Latin Poetry
If a ploughman in clodhopping boots who couldn't recognize the morning star
asked to be put in charge of a ship, Melicerta would cry out that shame had
perished from the world. The ploughman in his clodhopping boots who can't even
...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
adjective Sherlock Holmes' bumbling sidekick Watson: blundering, bungling,
amateurish, incompetent, inept, unskilful, inexpert, clumsy, maladroit, gauche,
awkward, inefficient, muddled, oafish, clodhopping, stumbling, lumbering, foolish,
...
r/ /"klA;d%hA;.p/ noun [C] informal personk 1 a person who moves in an awkward
way: Look where you're going, you great clodhopper. shoek 2 a heavy shoe: You'
re not coming in the house in those great clodhoppers. . clodhopping /"klQd- ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLODHOPPING»
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clodhopping is used in the context of the following news items.
Kyrgios exits Wimbledon in fits and starts: DiManno
It's flat-out clodhopping lowbred. If nailed for making no effort — as the spectators clearly saw it — Kyrgios could get a kick in the wallet. «OurWindsor.ca, Jul 15»
Rundle at Catal Huyuk: 11000 years later we're still where we …
... first to stop tourists clambering around, the second, the green to stop even archaeologists who werent on that section clodhopping through. «Daily Review, Jul 15»
Tough father, lasting impact
Worst of all, it was right out in the open next to the street and adjoining the school where all my schoolmates could see me clodhopping. «Columbia Daily Herald, Jun 15»
Interview: Judy Murray on Andy and Scotland success
Yes, everyone knows Judy, and all the more so after her performance of immense pluck and supreme clodhopping on Strictly Come Dancing. «Scotsman, Jun 15»
Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, V&A exhibition review: an Aladdin's cave …
... for the well-off, not the clodhopping herd — sensibility has always trumped sense, and fantasy become increasingly vertiginous reality. «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
Ron White: A shoeman and a charmer
And when he does a footbed sandal, “it's not the big chunky-monkey, clodhopping” shoe that looks like a Birkenstock, he said. “I always like ... «Montreal Gazette, May 15»
Cressie's journey from Sloane Ranger to Dior darling
... a lime green ill-fitting 'borrowed from my mum' blazer paired with an overtly-summery maxi dresses and clodhopping espadrilles for a June ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
Orient by Christopher Bollen, review: 'highly pleasing'
There is a grim plausibility to this that is lacking in, say, Tom Wolfe's recent clodhopping satires on the US art world. While enjoying all this the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
AFL 2015 season preview: Hawks, Swans and three others with title …
... superstars on every line, a giant gasometer looming over its home ground and a bewildered elephant clodhopping around the boundary line ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
How to Hold Your Breath review – ragbag dystopia starring Maxine …
... the desperate, sea-borne flights of refugees. How to Hold Your Breath begins by being coy about its meaning; it ends up being clodhopping. «The Guardian, Feb 15»
