10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRIVELLER»
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driveller in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
driveller and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
said Jack and he caught the driveller between his two fingers and eased it out of
the Inventor's pocket, only to have it slip from his grasp as he got it free. It fell to
the floor, and everyone stared down at the small, flat disc made of some ...
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The Right Hon. the Earl of Erne, Plaintiff; John Grey Vesey ...
The Attorney General says that this is accusing his client of being a fool, a
driveller, and an idiot. Gentlemen, I say, that in a discussion of this sort, having
impeached Lord Erne's mode of management, it is quite within the scope of
legitimate ...
John Henry Crichton Earl of Erne, 1859
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Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain
OH. NO,. THE. DRIVELLER. HAS. DONE. A. SWADGER! If you've ever thought of
country people as easily amused, slow-witted bumpkins living in another era,
then the ludicrous sport of dwile flonking might reinforce your prejudices. Unless
...
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The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors
It was now the turn of the rest of the party, then and there assembled, to be terror-
struck. Driveller 1, could the smooth-tongued, civil, adoring Mr. Frazer call the
divine Mrs. Buhanun a driveller? Impos. 'Sible! And could the divine Mrs.
Buhanun ...
Mrs. Bennett (Agnes Maria), 1813
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The Poetical Works of Milman, Bowles, Wilson and Barry ...
... I will tell him His dreams of horror and 1m works of sin. [/t man of a jierce and
ferocious aspect advances from tfie crowd. STRANGER. I ask thee nol, thou
juggling driveller, Whether ihe Plague hath fis'd In- eyes on me, Determined to
destroy.
Henry Hart Milman, William Lisle Bowles, John Wilson, 1829
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The city of the plague, and other poems
Stranger. I ask thee not, thou juggling driveller, Whether the Plague hath fix'd his
eyes on me, Determin'd to destroy. Let them who fear Death and his pit, with pale
beseeching hands Buy with their monies the awards of fate, And die in poverty.
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Gifford's Baviad: And Maeviad; Pasquin V. Faulder: Epistle ...
While many a Noble Name to virtue dear, Delights tbe public eye, the public ear,
And fills thy canker'd breast with such annoy, As Satan felt* from innocence and
joy ; Why, Peter, leave the hated object free, 5 And vent, poor driveller, all thy ...
William Gifford, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, 1827
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The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915: Historiography and Annotated ...
494], The Dardanelles Driveller and The Peninsula Press offer a look at the
attitudes of the men on the scene at various times in the campaign. Politics and
Strategy The strategic planning for the Dardanelles was Overviews, Archival
Sources, ...
Fred R. Van Hartesveldt, 1997
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The Union Dictionary: Containing All that Truly Useful in ...
Locke. Drivel, driv'vl. v. ii. to slaver. Grew.-To be weak or foolish, to dotc. Shak.
Drivel, driv'\'l. .9. slaver, moisture shed from the mouth. D1-yd.-A fool, a driveller. (
Out of use.) Sidney. Driveller, driv'vl-fir. .5-. a fool, an idiot, a slaverer. swifl, Driven
, ...
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Miss C-y's cabinet of curiosities, or The green room broke ...
He effects to be guided by Reason," observe' a Newgate Sollicitor. * 'l He is an
Eunuch, Stoic, Fool, Booby, Driveller, an “ ldeot, a swaddling Preachenand a Cd'
wardf cry they all 'tozethen-mu He is a Coward,aswa.ddling Preacher, E z v“ Ideo'
, ...
Tristram SHANDY (Gent., pseud.), 1765
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRIVELLER»
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driveller is used in the context of the following news items.
Legacies and cultural normalisation
Other gifts were left to Aethelweard the Stammerer, Godwine the Driveller (sic) and Aelnoth his sword polisher. Fast forward 1,000 years to my ... «UK Fundraising, Oct 14»
Dwyle flunking at a pub in England
The flunker, also known as the luckiest guy on the planet, carries a stick (termed “driveller”) used to dip a rag (termed “dwyle”) into the stale ale. «Boston Globe, Jul 14»
'Poetry is not dead,' says poetry
... and the cant of factitious sentiment: and can therefore serve only to ripen a splendid lunatic like Alexander, a puling driveller like Werter, or a ... «Washington Post, Jan 13»
Dwile flonkers girting for gold at Ludham Bridge: Photo gallery
As soon as he or she used the driveller to pick up a beer-soaked rag - the dwile - from the gazunder (a pot filled with slops), those watching ... «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Aug 12»
Full frontal assault on Turkey
Through the sketches, photographs and snippets from diaries and the satirical Dardanelles Driveller magazine produced by the troops, we ... «Today's Zaman, Sep 11»
One-year countdown begins to world dwile flonking championships …
... will be officially opened for business, and local champion Tom Weekly will make the first dip of his dwile-tipped driveller into a bucket of beer. «NewsBiscuit, Jul 11»
Counterpunch's “Left-Leaning” Attack on Fidel Castro
... 2010, “Autumn of the Driveller“ (http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09172010.html ), on Fidel Castro, is not only arrogant and one-sided, ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Sep 10»
Let him be Caesar!
... and suddenly the antagonism between 'the eminent tragedian' from England (or 'the superannuated driveller', as Forrest was by now calling ... «London Review of Books, Jul 07»
