10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRIPPERIES»
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fripperies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fripperies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in ...
Borrowed fripperies are always borrowed fripperies, no matter how resplendent.
There is at least one spiritual area where the Finns have created something
original: that is folklore, folk knowledge, folk literature. One of its most striking ...
Himani Bannerji, Shahrzad Mojab, Judith Whitehead, 2001
2
Looking for Jencey: The Life of Lizzie Elnora Murphy Casebolt
“Fripperies, indeed!” Mrs. Casebolt raised her voice in amiable protest. “Why,
Captain Templeton, I remember how you flirted with belles in their fripperies
before the war.” “In my carefree youth,” boomed the captain. He plunked down on
his ...
Dorothy Diemer Hendry, 2007
“You don't approve of fripperies, Miss Carstairs?” Alice felt a laugh bubbling into
her throat. “On the contrary, sir, I approve wholeheartedly of fripperies such as
beef and sugar and wax candles instead of tallow dips!” “Don't worry yourself.
4
Black World/Negro Digest
She may look different, but underneath the fripperies she's the same woman.
Miss Rodgers achieves true originality in lines like, "and uh stiff won't rub off don't
wash out longing" and "lopsided crystal sweet moment," where she writes of ...
5
Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women’s Poetry
“Fripperies. and. Seductive. Indulgences”. When Davie, Fairchild, and others
decry the distinctive stylistic characteristics of Victorian women's religious poetry,
to what features specifically aretheyreferring? How cantheparticular aesthetic ...
6
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
unwittingly mingled unwonted kindness [unwonted = unusual] unworldly
foolishness unworthy alliance unyielding nature uproarious laughter upstart
pretensions useless fripperies [fripperies = pretentious, showy] utmost scorn V
vacant ...
"Leave those fripperies to the gallants," had been the old lady's pungent remark; "
what dowe want with powder andperiwigs, patches and pomatum?" She
remembered the simple elegance of the courtdresses of the ladies in the Stuart
times, ...
Evelyn Everett-Green, 2014
8
The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping: Middlebrow Authorship and ...
Dress her in romantic fictions and impossible idealism, the beauty of her body still
remains when all the spiritual fripperies have fallen in rags and left her naked.
The Greek part of her remains so long as she loves youth. Even if she marries, ...
9
The Affairs of Harriet Walters, Spinster:
There will be practically no expense at all, and you can spend the money you
save on little fripperies for yourself,” Diane said. “Don't be impertinent, girl. I'm not
interested in fripperies.” Harriet had been overjoyed at the prospect of a trip to ...
10
The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical ...
Finally, a firm of West End milliners (owned by a Mr. Aaron Schwaebe) trading
under the name Madame Rosalie sued Mr. Thistlethwayte for one thousand
pounds for "bonnets and shawls and other feminine fripperies."48 Women's "
natural" ...
Victoria De Grazia, Ellen Furlough, 1996
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRIPPERIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
fripperies is used in the context of the following news items.
Old and deeply lined faces tell life's story
Perhaps, like my face, my life's list is old and deeply lined, fraying around the edges, or lost in the fripperies of life's unimportant details. «Charleston Post Courier, Jul 15»
Restaurant review: Eight Point Two, Birkenhead
In both this dish, and the Professor's excellent snapper, garnishing fripperies (tiny discs of radish or onion; single leaves of Brussels sprout) ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
Madame Bovary's malaise and the feminine mystique
... as does the local merchant of expensive fripperies, M. Lheureux. In this film version, time is telescoped: Emma is always young and impatient ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Seagate Personal Cloud NAS: Australian Review
There's no secondary Ethernet port, no eSATA, no integrated Wi-Fi or other fancy fripperies like HDMI — it's just storage, and it's just a simple ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
VIDEO: Emilia Clarke's Marie Claire Cover Make-Up Tutorial
For this video Blunder has teamed up with Karima McKimmie of Shameless Fripperies, an Australian make-up and skincare vlogger with over ... «Marie Claire.co.uk, Jul 15»
Do not bet the farm on Osborne becoming Tory leader
It is not just the fripperies such as the weight loss and the new haircut. It is the way he has fashioned and positioned himself as the man who ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
Restaurant review: Les Gourmets des Ternes, the Frenchest place …
The restaurant features virtually no concessions to the fripperies of the modern food scene – first of all, it's French, a cuisine that's so far out of ... «City A.M., Jul 15»
Adventure playground
He linked it with a flying fox, so that although the kids didn't have fripperies such as bedrooms or bathrooms, they had plenty of scope for ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
BJP man plays religion card, builds cowshed outside Kothrud hsg soc
... are restive as the politician's workers are seen making arrangements to prop a pandal and other fripperies to ring in his birthday on July 10. «Pune Mirror, Jul 15»
The cost of (mal)governance
This is apart from other various forms of fripperies. Meanwhile, it is not as if the country is even getting value for money. Indeed, what we have ... «BusinessDay, Jul 15»
