10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROWSINESS»
Discover the use of
frowsiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
frowsiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Harper's Monthly Magazine
All the stolid and yet wary conservatism of her character revolted against meals at
odd hours, brown bread, apples, orange-sucking, action of the skin, male cooking
, camp-beds, the frowsiness of casual charwomen, bare heads, and especially ...
Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, 1914
Frowsiness. (By frowsiness is meant that indefinable air of carelessness which, if
not carried too far, makes for style, but if carried too far, undoes everything.)
Perspective. (This is of utmost importance. Most women have their dresses fitted
in a.
All the stolid and yet wary conservatism of her character revolted against meals at
odd hours, brown bread, apples, orange-sucking, action of the skin, male cooking
, camp-beds, the frowsiness of casual charwomen, bare heads, and especially ...
Henry Mills Alden, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, 1914
Frowsiness. (By frowsiness is meant that indefinable air of carelessness which, if
not carried too far, makes for style, but if carried too far, undoes everything.)
Perspective. ("This is of utmost importance. Most women have their dresses fitted
in a ...
5
Roper's Row: Easyread Edition
But certainly, being your own cook and charwoman was something of a nuisance
, and a lone man was expected to be so helpless, though he was less so when
alone than as the victim of female frowsiness. Hazzard could not tolerate ...
6
Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square
As the Times noted, "The alleged obscenity of the burlesque shows is exceeded
by their external frowsiness. The neighborhood of such theatres takes on the
character of a slum.'"'00 This greater emphasis on property value facilitated ...
7
Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
Comparing herself favourably with Arabella's frowsiness, playing Lady Bountiful,
rebuffing Arabella's open-hearted gesture of proffering a telegram for her to read,
Sue stands on her pride and dignity throughout— with just a touch of triumph ...
8
Roper's Row (Volume 2 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Warwick Deeping. less, though he was less so when alone than as the victim of
female frowsiness. Hazzard could not tolerate frowsiness. A house might be like
a laboratory, bare and austere, but it should be meticulously and efficiently clean.
9
Essays & poems presented to Lord David Cecil
(Part I, 214) where the frowsiness is an actuality, and the burlesque frowsiness of
Swift's moon: 'A frouzy dirty colour'd red/Sits on her cloudy wrinckled Face' ('The
Progress of Beauty', 3-4) and of Swift's petticoats: 'Here Pettycoats in frowzy ...
David Cecil, Lord David Cecil, William Wallace Robson, 1970
10
The Art of Living in Wartime
2 Several years ago a visiting Englishman said that he didn't like American
homes because they were so unhomelike. How were they unhomelike? They
were too smart, neat, and fixed up. They lacked, he said, "the dear frowsiness of
home.
Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie, 1943
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROWSINESS»
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frowsiness is used in the context of the following news items.
Little Britain Live
Or because it combines the frowsiness and absurdity of a previous generation of British comedy with the in-yer-face 'single entendre' of the ... «The Age, Jan 07»
