10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOURSES»
Discover the use of
fourses in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fourses and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The New Suffolk Garland: A Miscellany of Anecdotes, Romantic ...
A Miscellany of Anecdotes, Romantic Ballads, Descriptive Poems and Songs,
Historical and Biographical Notices, and Statistical Returns Relating to the
County of Suffolk John Glyde. How goo the time ? I kind o' think Our fourses*
should be ...
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A Suffolk Largess. By Quill
I kind 0' think Our fourses" should be here, Chaps, don't yaw fare to want some
drink 7— There's Sue with the old beer ! The rain have cleared right slap away ;
An' if it hold out bright, Let's work right hard, lads (what d'ye say '1) An'clear this ...
3
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Will ye tak them in aneses or fourses?" asked the seller, " we count them in
fourses, fifteen fourses to a word. But I'll count them in aneses to you." " I'll take
them as you are accustomed to give them." " That's fifteen fourses to the half-
hunner.
4
Fireside tales for the young
These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their " elevenses"
and "fourses." I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of
carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and their fourses, till Mrs. Henley ...
Will ye tak them in aneses or fourses?" asked the seller, “ we count them in
fourses, fifteen fourses to a word. But I'll count them in aneses to you." “ I'll take
them as you are accustomed to give them.” " That's fifteen fourses to the
halfhunner.
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The Juvenile Scrap-book
These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their " elevenses"
and " fourses." I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of
carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and their fourses, till Mrs. Henley ...
These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their " elevenses
" and fourses." I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of
carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and their fourses till Mrs Henley ...
8
Change and Tradition in Rural England: An Anthology of ...
The other meals during harvest were breakfast, elevenses, dinner and fourses -
in some places elevenses was called 'beaver' or 'cheesing' - but there was a
good deal of difference in the local significations of these terms and the times at ...
A warm spicy scent filled the house whenever these buns were fresh from the
oven, which was pretty often, for the bountiful old custom, now mostly disused, of
givin the res. rs 'fourses cake and ale' was kept up at are Grun el; and every ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
fourses e.An.I2 Nrf. Suf. ; fourzes Nrf. Suf.: fOWers Ess.l ; fowerses, fowses e.Suf. [
fou'arz, fou'oz, fou'azoz.] 1. A light meal taken by labourers during harvest in the
afternoon, gen. about four o'clock. See Four (12, 13, 20). n.Cy. N. ff Q. (1870' ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOURSES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
fourses is used in the context of the following news items.
There's always time to have elevenses
They would also be having nineses and tenses, twoses and threeses, maybe squeezing in a bit of work between the fourses and fiveses. «Bangkok Post, Apr 15»
Laura Kemp: Why you can have your cake and eat it this Autumn …
... tenses and elevenses, featuring Walkers Grab Bags, followed by lunches of white bread, threeses of doughnuts, biscuits for half-past-fourses, ... «WalesOnline, Sep 14»
Best To Worst: Every Marvel Movie Ranked
... looking at all the Spider-Mans, Avengerses, X-men, Blades, Punishers, Daredevils, Fantastic Fourses and, um, Howard the Ducks. Or to put it ... «Indie Wire, Apr 14»
British Breads: A History Lesson
Lardy cake, for example, with slightly different varieties manifesting in different areas, is also known as Lardy bread, Dough cake, Fourses cake, ... «The Epoch Times, Sep 11»
Smarter ways to snack
Think of "elevenses", of afternoon tea, of "fourses". Three meals a day? Pfff. When have we ever eaten that? There's a problem with all this ... «The Independent, Apr 11»
