10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COBWEBBERY»
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cobwebbery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cobwebbery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blues and Roots/Rue and Bluets: A Garland for the Southern ...
Cobwebbery. the best spiders for soup are the ones under stones — ask the man
who is one: plain white american (not blue gentian red indian yellow sun black
caribbean) hard heart, cold mind's found a home in the ground "a rolling stone, ...
2
A Supplementary English Glossary
C. Kingsley, Westward Ho, ch. xx. Cobwebbery, flimsy intricacy. Welcome is his
word, ... logical cobwebbery shrinks itself together, and thou seest a thing, how it
is, how it may be worked with.— Carlyle, Fr. Kev., Pt. II. Bk. I. ch. ii. Cock, a
familiar ...
Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,
1881
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Selected Roberts Papers: Seven Generations of a Southern Lineage
... be beaten into the syl— labub of fashionable society, or entangled in the
cobwebbery of a giddy world. The profound mysteries of the universe about us,
and the deep yearnings of the soul within us cannot fail to raise in the thoughtful
mind ...
Charles Stewart Roberts,
2013
Welcome is his word, there where he speaks and works; and growing ever
welcomer; for it alone goes to the heart of the business: logical cobwebbery
shrinks itself together; and thou seest a thing, how it is, how it may be Worked
with.
Festooned it was with mock-up Hallowe'en-style cobwebbery and plastic spiders
(though actually there was little actual parlez, as about-to-be-tattooed bods rather
sat glancing through heaps of Tattoo mags, and at various “Frankie's” ...
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Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches: with elucidations
How seldom can a Nation, can even an individual man, understand what at heart
his own real will is : such masses of superficial bewilderment, of respectable
hearsay, of fantasy and pedantry, and old and new cobwebbery, overlie our poor
...
Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle,
1888
Welcome is his word, there where he speaks and works; and growing ever
welcomer; for it alone goes to the heart of the business: logical cobwebbery
shrinks itself together; and thou seest a thing, how it is, how it may be worked with
.
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The Sermons of Jesus the Messiah
His coherent teachings dispelled the cobwebbery of Phariseeism and brought an
end to the verbal trifling and sophistries of the Jews. His admonitions and
teachings dealt with faith, hope, and charity: they were concerned with the
destiny of ...
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Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches: with Elucidations by ...
How seldom can a Nation, can even an individual man, understand what at heart
his own real will is : such masses of superficial bewilderment, of respectable
hearsay, of fantasy and pedantry, and old and new cobwebbery ...
He brushed them aside, with their endless quiddities and quillets, and casuistical
cases, and legal cobwebbery, and they hated him in return. They had come from
Jerusalem in full-blown official dignity, as a deputation from the ecclesiastical ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COBWEBBERY»
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Trance, reviewed: Danny Boyle's hypnotism-heist flick may be too …
... double-cross is a fantastic construction to behold, but the final act feels as though someone had just swept it away like so much cobwebbery. «National Post, Apr 13»