10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIGGERY»
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figgery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
figgery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Counting-Out Rhymes: A Dictionary
... pheeny, figgery fegg,”and “Eenity, feenity, fickety,feg.” FolkLore Journal,1 (
1883), 385 [Cumberland, England] =Northall (1892), 344.Begins “Eeny, pheeny,
figgery, fegg.” M'Bain (1887), 345 [Scotland].Begins “Innertie, finnertie, fickertie,
fegg.
Roger D. Abrahams, Lois Rankin, 2013
The link told Figgery that someone else in the government was also interested in
it. Usually it was the IRS watching for tax evasion or the folks at Immigration
snooping for illegals working under false documents. Figgery clicked on the link.
3
The Laws of the Hebrews, Relating to the Poor and the Stranger
The figgery contains nearly an acre of ground, and many of the trees date beyond
the memory of the present family. Before the intense frost of 1838, it contained
about 100 trees ; a larger figgery than that inherited from his father by the divine ...
4
Five Little Questions That Reveal the Life God Designed for You
Then she said with an exaggerated yawn as she made fun of me, “Ah, yeah, I'm
gonna just go finish a book, and then in a few hours I'm going to fly halfway
around the world to build a figgery.” We both laughed at her mistake. I hope we
build a ...
We are just emerging from nearly three weeks (figgery-voo!) of fêtes à propos of
the completion and unveiling of the famous front of the Duomo here – in the
course of which I had the fatuity to assume a quattro-cento dress (of scarlet and
black) ...
6
Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late ...
The confusion was real: on 27 November 1349, the notary Jacme Aycart, in
writing out an act of sale, described the house as situated "in the street of the
Figgery in the burg [elided] the quarter of SanctiJohannis" (carreria de
laFigayressa in ...
7
The second funeral of Napoleon: in three letters to Miss ...
Thus, my dear, coquettes of your fascinating sex cover their persons with figgery,
fantastically arranged, and call their masquerading, modesty. Cowards fig
themselves out fiercely as " salvage men," and make us believe that they are
warriors ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1841
8
Charcoal Sketches; Or, Scenes in a Metropolis
... my head with the grace, but alas ! the swiftness too, of kittens — especially just
before I get asleep — but they're all lost for the want of a trap ; an intellectual
figgery four. I wish we could find out the way of sprinkling salt on their tails, and ...
9
The attaché; or, Sam Slick in England, by the author of 'The ...
Give me your figgery-four Squire, I'll go in up to the handle for you. Hit or miss,
rough or tumble, claw or mud- scraper, any way, you damn please, I'm your man."
But to return to my narrative. I was under the necessity of devoting the day next ...
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Samuel Slick (fict. name.), 1843
10
The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal
Mr Loud, the proprietor of this little figgery, mentions, that he gathers about a
hundred dozen per day during the season, and that he averages the trees to
produce him about twenty dozen each. The fruit, which is partly of the white and
partly of ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIGGERY»
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A gardener's road trip to Hawke's Bay
Go on a tour of this Havelock North figgery, then sample and buy some of the artisan fig products, including the special salame di fichi (fig and ... «Stuff.co.nz, Mar 15»
