10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUNCTATIOUS»
Discover the use of
cunctatious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cunctatious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Teacher opened his eyes. "What was that again?" " 'Cunctatious': prone to delay."
"Example?" " 'Would you not agree, Prime Minister, that the fact we've been
waiting three bloody hours for Sir Godwin proves he's a trifle on the cunctatious
side ...
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of ...
... he got to Metz, Belleisle's strong Town, about 100 miles from the actual scene ;
his detached reinforcements, say 50,000 men or so, hanging out ahead like
flame-clouds, but uncertain how to act ; — Noailles being always cunctatious in
time ...
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle
... about 100 miles from the actual scene; his detached reinforcements, say
50,000 men or so, hanging out ahead like flame-clouds, but uncertain how to act ;
— Noailles being always cunctatious in time of crisis, and poor Louis himself
nothing ...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 1969
... hanging out ahead like flame-clouds, but ' uncertain how to act;—Noailles
being always cunctatious in time ' of crisis, and poor Louis himself nothing of a
Cloud-Compeller;-—and ' then, 5 Age then twenty-five gone: 'born 14th
September ...
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The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine
The " cunctatious, yet incessant and ubiquitous endeavourings of his Britannic
Majesty (1741 — 1743)," are strikingly detailed, and in these pages " we perceive
the Britannic Majesty's own little mind pulsing with this pragmatic matter, as the ...
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great
August 4th, he got to Metz, Belleisle's strong town, about 100 miles from the
actual scene; his detached reinforcements, say 50,000 men or so, hanging out
ahead like flame-clouds, but uncertain how to act; —Noailles being always
cunctatious ...
7
HISTORY OF FREDERICK THE GREAT
... about 100 miles from the actual scene ; his detached reinforcements, say
50,000 men or so, hanging out ahead like flame-clouds, but uncertain how to act;
— Noailles being always cunctatious in time of crisis, and poor Louis himself
nothing ...
8
History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great
Far from it : indeed, except it be paying money, he becomes again a miracle of
cunctatious ; and staggers about for years to come, like the — Shall we say, like
the White Hanover Horse amid half a dozen sieves of beans ? Alas, no, like the ...
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Studien zur englischen Philologie
-ous. Cryptophilous 124, 280. Cunctatious 137, 280. Fogarious 69, 280.
Frostarious 69, 280. Majestious 137, 280. Rainous 69, 280. Roysterous 127, 280.
Snowous 69, 280. Vintagearious 69, 280. Windous 69, 280. -ship.
Archbishopship 65.
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Thomas Carlyle's Works: History of Friedrich II of Prussia
... his detached reinforcements, say 50,000 ' men or so, hanging out ahead like
flame-clouds, but uncertain how to ' act ; — Noailles being always cunctatious in
time of crisis, and poor ' Louis himself nothing of a Cloud-Compeller ; — and then
, ...
