10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREARISOME»
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A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative ...
Drearisome, adj. Dreary, dismal, lonely, wearying. ' A lang drearisome road.' Wb.
Gl. Dree, adj. Tedious, long-continued, wearisome. See Jam. Teut. draegb, slow,
lazy ; Goth, drig, driugr, long drawn out ; O. N. dragr, of ' what can be drawn out ...
John Christopher Atkinson, 1868
It was a darksome drearisome place, that old warehouse, at night. When,
knowing that no other living human soul was in the place, you heard a mad rush
of hurrying feet on the floor over your head, though reason told you they were
only the ...
3
Country Love vs. City Flirtation; or, ten Chapters from the ...
Of the drearisome days, so lonely and long, She sits with her woe in a cheerful
room, Singing a snatch of _a sorrowful song, Or dreaming of rest in the quiet
tomb. __..0_ From the saddest of all sad things of life, A weary woman wasting
away, ...
H. T. SPERRY, Augustus HOPPIN, 1865
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
DREARISOME. adj. Se. Yks. Nh . Also written dhreearisome e.Yks.' llIS. add. (T15
) [dria'risamJ Dreary. tedious, dismal ; lonely, unfrequented. Per. l'hro' the lung
winter's drearysome din Ye shivered and slept in the hert o' a whin, EDWARDS ...
5
The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine
... of a dozen kingdoms depended, and then to be consigned, unresisting and
uncomplaining, to black and dull and drearisome oblivion, and to chew the cud of
disappointment at blighted hopes and by-gone visions of professional distinction,
...
6
Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman
... 2) words that label something as approved of or disapproved of (euphoria/
dysphoria tags), such as "good," "wicked," "delightful," "drearisome"; 3) qualifier
and quantifier words, such as 'specially' or 'more,' and 4) general purpose words
that, ...
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The United service magazine
... of a dozen kingdoms depended, and then to be consigned, unresisting and
uncomplaining, to black and dull and drearisome oblivion, and to chew the cud of
disappointment at blighted hopes and by-gone visions of professional distinction,
...
8
The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most ...
Prices of stock, Dutch wooden clocks, Limeing 'em, timeing 'em, haw, bawl
Chancery Court, tedious report, Drearisome, wearisome, 0 law! Hummery,
mummery, Flummery, summary, Strummery, drummery, Scribble 'em, quibble 'em
, Hoaxing ...
9
Cottage life and rural scenery: a poem: with a few minor ...
Rosa is slowly pacing to and fro, That drearisome abode of death and woe ; Now
gazing on that silent form she stands, And clasps, in speechless agony, her
hands, There is a tone of deep and fixed despair, A look of strange emotion in her
air ...
William Neville Usher, 1834
10
The Midsummer Medley: A Series of Comic Tales ... in Prose ...
... whilom more floriferous and fragrant than Hesperus his fabled Paradise, a rank
and undelectable wilderness, and the stately palaces and the mighty Temple of
Bel were toppled down and crumbling into ruins, and all around was drearisome
...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DREARISOME»
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Delaware's Poetry Out Loud winner practices for DC
We thought it was the Judgment-day. And sat upright. While drearisome. Arose the howl of wakened hounds: The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,. «The News Journal, Apr 14»
(Sieve) Size Matters
Sorting tens of thousands of limpets can be quite drearisome and on the occasion you find something that is to be classified as no a limpet is a ... «Deep-Sea News, Oct 09»
