10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLATLONG»
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the ...
FLATLONG,. flàt'long,. ad. With. the. flat. downwards, nut edgewise. FLATLY, flit'lè
, «rf. Horizontally, without inclination; without prominence or elevation ; without
spirit, dully, frigidly; peremptorily, downright. FLATNESS, flát'uls, ». Evenness ...
2
A Short Historical English Grammar
Hence in Early MnE we find sideling, sidelong ' sideways,' flatling and flatlong, as
in the blow felt flatlong, that is, 'was given with the flat of the sword instead of the
point.' In Present English headlong is still an adverb, sidelong being an ...
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A new English grammar, logical and historical
... on the nose,' ' at full length,' sidelinge{s) ' sideways.' In MnE this ending has
been confused with the adjective long. Hence in Early MnE we find sideling,
sidelong' sideways,' flatting and flatlong, as in the blow fell flatlong, that is ...
185 SILBAS'I'IAN And it had not fall'n flatlong. GONZALO You are gentlemen of
brave mettle; you would lift the moon out of her sphere if she would continue in it
five weeks without changing. Enter Ariel [invisible] playing solemn rnusie.
William Shakespeare, Sylvan Barnet, 1996
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The tempest (7th ed.)
1598, we read, in the description of Pamela's execution, that ' the pittilesse
sworde had such pittie of so precious an object [i. e. Pamela's neck] that at first it
did but hit flatlong.' — Ed.] 189. if she would] I doubt if strict rules can be laid
down in ...
William Shakespeare, 1892
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The poetical works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount: Lion ...
The English form is flatlong, not edgewise : Thus Shakspeare: " What a blow
waVnere given ! An it had not fallen flatlong." Fle', to flee ; also to fly : part. pres.
fleand : pret. and part. pa. fleit. O. Eng.^/e and fleand, R. of Brunne, Minot: A-Sax.
fleon ...
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The tempest. 11th ed. ...
A few of these, without the dative suffix, exist under the form -ling or -long, as
head-long, sideling, sidelong, darhling,flatling, and flatlong. -W. A. WRIGHT
quotes Hollyband's Dictionarie .' ' Frapper du plat de l'espée, to strike with a
sword ...
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, Samuel Burdett Hemingway, 1892
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Correct English and Current Literary Review ...
... of flats flat-iron flatlong flat-nosed flat-orchil a lichen flat-rod flattening-furnace
flattening-hearth flattening-mill flattening-plate flattening-stone flattening-tool
flatter-blind to blind with flattery flatting-coat flatting-furnace flatting-hearth flatting-
mill ...
Josephine Turck Baker, 1907
Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you; so you may continue, and
laugh at nothing still. Antonio. What a blow was there given! Sebastian. And° it
had not fall'n flatlong.° Gonzalo. You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would lift
the ...
William Shakespeare, 1998
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the ...
... dull, absolute—s. a level, shallow-v. a. & n. to level, make broad and smooth,
grow flat ' Flatlong, flat'long. ad. with the flat side down, not edgewise Flatly, flat'lé.
ad. horizontally, anlly Flatness, fidt'nés. s. evenness, insipidity Flatten, flat'tn.
