10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMBUSTIOUS»
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combustious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
combustious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
'It shall be cause of war and dire events, And set dissension 'twixt the son and
sire; Subject and servile to all discontents, As dry combustious matter is to fire.
1151 raging.mad] (raging mad; silly-mild] (sillic milde; Sith in his prime death doth
my ...
William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen, 2007
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Sonnets and Other Poems
'It shall be cause of war and dire events And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire
, Subject and servile to all discontents, As dry combustious matter is to fire: Sith in
his prime death doth my love destroy, They that love best their loves shall not ...
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen, 2009
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The Dictionary of Shakespeare Words
A combustious item is literally something easy to combust. The word is generally
used in metaphor. Comeddle - (ko-MED-ul) mixed together, like water comeddled
with wine. It can also be used figuratively, i.e. joy comeddled with sorrow, love ...
BookCaps, BookCaps Study Guides Staff, 2011
As you can wish, sir, And, notwithstanding this combustious strife Betwixt the
winds and seas, our ship still tight, No anchor, cable, tackle, sail or mast Lost,
though much dangered. All our damage is, 5 That where our purpose was for
Italy We ...
Thomas Heywood, Paul Merchant, 1996
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The Psyche, a magazine of belles lettres, ed. by the author ...
Then cometh your yellow song, which hath ever a very jaundiced look with it, and
is in huge request with your outrageous, combustious jealous pates, and
thorough-going cuckoldy knaves. After this, there is your green song, which shall
be ...
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The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of ...
Thirdly, there doth march round about the pavilion artificiall men, which shall cast
out fires, as before, as it were in skirmish; another part of the pavilion is all in a
combustious flame, where rackets, crackers, breakers, and such like, give blowes
...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, in Sixteen ...
It shall be cause os war 4, and dire eventsi And set dissention 'twixt the son and
lite; Subject and servile to all discontents, As dry Combustious matter is to fire ;
Sirh in his prime death doth my love destroy, They that love best, their loves shall
...
William Shakespeare, 1794
At sight of me the frolicsome trio slunk back somewhat confused, and a shrill
female voice called out from the eating room, in a halflaughing, half-wrathful tone,
“ Come back, you combustious cretursl Come back, I tell ye, or I'll tell your Pa
when ...
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Travels and Voyages ... Eleventh edition
... the trembling surges (at 'Dungiby) of struggling Neptune, which ingorgeth
Pentland, or Pictland frith, with nine contrarious tides; each, tide overthwarting
another with repugnant courses, have such violent streams, and combustious
waves ...
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The Works of Shakespere
And set dissention 'twixt the son and sire ; Subject and servile to all discontents,
As dry combustious matter is to fire ; Sith in his prime death doth my love destroy,
They that love best their loves shall not enjoy." By this the boy that by her side ...
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall, John Ogden, 1843
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMBUSTIOUS»
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The iron-fisted father of movie matte painting
It fell to the the famously combustious Percy Day, a fine artist of some distinction who turned to matte painting at an itinerant point in his life, ... «Shadowlocked, Dec 10»
