10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOISONLESS»
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
R.') ; Provision forafamily, (31105111790 ; N.Cy.'i'. n.Yks.2 llenee Foisonless, adj.
dry, wanting in nourishment; of wine or spirits: insipid, without ' body.' Sc. The
wine, thin fusionless skink it was, Scott 5!. Rmmn (182.1) xxxii; MORTON (:1'1'10.
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The Proverbs of Scotland, collected and arranged, with ...
Fleach,” to flatter. A good wish sincerely expressed. Fair folk are aye foisonless.
Kelly says of the word “ foisonless," that it means “ without strength or sap; dried
up; withered. Scott, in Old Mon'alily, uses it in the moral sense, “unsubstantial.
Alexander HISLOP (Publisher.), 1870
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The proverbs of Scotland: collected and arranged, with notes ...
Fair fa' you, and that's nae fleaching. " Fleach," to flatter. A good wish sincerely
expressed. Fair folk are aye foisonless. Kelly fays of the word "foisonless," that it
means "without strength or fap; dried up; withered." Scott, in Old Mortality, uses it
in ...
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The Proverbs of Scotland
“Fleach,” to flatter. A good wish sincerely expressed. Fair folk are aye foisonless.
Kelly says of the word “foisonless,” that it means “without strength or sap; dried up
; withered.” Scott, in Old Mortality, uses it in the moral sense, “unsubstantial.
Yet, in comparison with unpremeditated outbursts of Nature, such as an
Insurrection of Women, how foisonless, unedifying, undelightful; like small ale
palled, like an effervescence that has eifervesced! Such scenes, coming of
forethought, ...
... of life out of the mouth of hungry, poor creatures, and forcibly cramming their
throats with the lifeless, saltless, foisonless, lukewarm dram- meck of the fourteen
false prelates, and their sycophantic, formal, carnal, scandalous creature-curates.
sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]), 1841
For your modern foisonless poetical inventions, called ballads, we care not a doit
; but for the old traditionary, romantic, or heroic strain, which, like the shibboleth of
free masonry, has lived upon the memory without the intervention of written ...
Yet, in comparison with unpremeditated outbursts of Nature4 such as an
Insurrection of Women, how foisonless, unedifying, undelightful ; like small ale
palled, like an effervescence that has effervesced ! Such scenes, coming of
forethought, ...
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
107- FIZZEN, s. Pith/force, energy, Loth., South of S. " The pump has lost the
fizzen? Fizzenless, adj. 1. The same with Foisonless ; used as signifying stupid,
useless, Berwicks. 2. Insipid, applied to the mind ; as, " a silly fizzenless creature,"
ibid ...
Nay, our very Biographies, how stiff-starched, foisonless, hollow! They stand
there res ectable; and what more? Dumb ido s; with a skin of delusively painted
wax-work; and inwardly empty, or full of rags and bran. In our England especially,
...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1837
