10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKSHIES»
Discover the use of
cockshies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cockshies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
The London Fields are so overrun by "riff-raff" that a cow cannot get -a decent
living on them. A witness told the Committee that games -are played upon these
fields, and " there are the most dissolute practices imaginable." Cockshies are put
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John Douglas Cook, Philip Harwood, Walter Herries Pollock, 1869
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Saturday Review: Politics, Literature, Science and Art
The London Fields are so overrun by “ riff-rail" that a cow cannot get a decent
living on them. A witness told the Committee that games are played upon these
fields, and “ there are the most dissolute practices imaginable.” Cockshies are put
up ...
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, ...
The London Fields are so overrun by “ rifi'-rafi"' that a cow cannot get ..a decent
living on them. Awitness told the Committee that games -are played upon these
fields, and “ there are the most dissolute practices imaginable.” Cockshies are put
...
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Even now there ' are one or two outlying stones on which miscreants may be able
to set their empty beer bottles to make cockshies of. Avebury's turn will come next
, or what remains ' of that unfortunate place on the abuse of which no ...
Ireland, Q.C., sings — Farewell, my learned " cockshies,"* You're wrong this time,
you see ; You can't sustain the judgments Advised by Hio. and B. t Mr.
Montgomery's Readings. The next week's programme of this popular lecturer will
embrace ...
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Narnia: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete
Theyplay cockshies most fine mornings. About theonly game they're clever
enough to understand.” It was a horrible time. There seemednoend of the lineof
giants, and they never ceased hurling stones, some of whichfell extremely close.
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
But does he really mean that people in the present and in the future will never
find anybody to abuse? Has he seen, following each other across the pantomime
stage, the long succession of popular guys and cockshies, and supposed that ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1991
The following are colloquialisms: “cockshies ” (CP. 185), from “cockshy,” “ a free
throw or ' shy ' at an object set up for the purpose ” ; “ dollop ” (OP. 8), ' a clumsy
or shapeless lump of anything'; “lollopin' ” (OP. 7), an onomatopoeic extension of
...
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The everlasting mercy ; and The widow in the Bye street
Or hold her fast when all the horses whirl Round to the steam pipe whanging at
the sky, Or stand her cockshies at the cocoa-shy, Or buy her brooches with her
name in red, Or Queen Victoria done in gingerbread. Then there are rifle shots at
...
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Values, Education and the Human World: Essays on Education, ...
It is a theme that I want to continue, but, in doing so, I argue that both Quinton and
O'Hear have ignored the nature of the changes taking place and thus have been
tilting at the wrong enemies — the cockshies of the education correspondent of ...
