10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUSTINESS»
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fustiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fustiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the ...
Here there is order, tradition, perhaps a slight fustiness (but a quite pardonable
fustiness, an arranged and suitable fustiness having its recompense in a sort of
spiritual quiet) ; here, at any rate, was something decorous, something not to be ...
Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, 1920
2
A Manual of public health
Domestic Darkness and general Dirtiness of Dwellings are conducive to
Diarrheal Mortality. — Dirtiness with bad ventilation constitutes a condition known
as " fustiness." It is a common-place condition in the crowded and poor parts of
towns, ...
Alexander Wynter Blyth, 1890
Free to let her room go, Jennifer turns a blind eye to the fustiness, the dustiness, and the spider’s webby empire up in the corner! Finally, one day, she can stand her own mess no longer, and gets to work— on the big tidy-up!
... to become duller as I grow older, and to have acquired a fustiness independent
of place and occupation, an inherent fustiness which idleness cannot blow away
nor variety obliterate. . . . . I fear from what I hear of C. that the chance of his ...
Richard Hurrell Froude, 1838
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The Vocabulary of East-Anglia Etc. - London, J. B. Nicols 1830
RAFTINESS, s. fustiness; staleness. RAFTY, adj. 1. Fusty; stale. A cask emptied
of its contents, is apt to become rqfly, if there be not sufficient access of air; and
provisions, if the larder be not well ventilated. 2. The air is said to be rafiy when it
is ...
6
Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments
For the fact is, that I seem to myself to become duller as I grow older, and to have
acquired a fustiness independent of place and occupation, an inherent fustiness
which idleness cannot blow away nor variety obliterate. ... I fear from what I hear ...
Louise Imogen Guiney, 1904
7
Remains of the Late Reverend Richard Hurrell Froude
For the fact is, that I seem to myself to become duller as I grow older, and to have
acquired a fustiness independent of place and occupation, an inherent fustiness
which idleness cannot blow away nor variety obliterate I fear from what I hear of ...
Richard Hurrell Froude, John Henry Newman, John Keble, 1838
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Henry James: Critical Assessments
Here there is order, tradition, perhaps a slight fusti- ness (but a quite pardonable
fustiness, an arranged and suitable fustiness having its recompense in a sort of
spiritual quiet); here, at any rate, was something decorous, something not to be ...
9
The Western Time of Ancient History: Historiographical ...
... to deflect those orientations to take account of the traditions whose trajectory is
explored here.2 For a British child growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, it is hard
to exaggerate the fustiness and apparent irrelevance of initial encounter with the
...
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The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, a Concise View, of the ...
Now it is to be noted, that this doth not only prevent the fustiness, but conserveth
the greenness and slacketh the desiccation of it : the cause is that which we
noted before, that the discharging of the watry humour, which is quickened by the
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUSTINESS»
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fustiness is used in the context of the following news items.
Entertaining 'Kate' kissed with wit at the Old Globe
It's also rooted in the way director Darko Tresnjak shakes any fustiness off this beloved, Porter-scored chestnut, honoring and yet subtly ... «U-T San Diego, Jul 15»
Alicia Vikander Triumphs in Testament of Youth
... hand-held shots to bridge the gulf between then and now: There's none of the trapped-in-amber fustiness of so many period dramas. «Riverfront Times, Jul 15»
A 'Doll's House' with a contemporary edge at Harbor Stage
Ibsen put the machinations in motion, and Kropf has stripped away the Victorian fustiness of translations past to lay bare a conflict relevant to ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
The Complexities of Quality Olive Oil
Ancient traders' dismay at an oil's "fustiness" - the term for over fermentation and a sure sign of a defective oil - in 2015 has become ... «Lamorindaweekly, Jun 15»
John Tory can only take us backward on transit: Hume
Tory's fustiness may also help explain his lack of imagination and fear of new ideas. The letter goes on about “holding property taxes to the rate ... «Toronto Star, Jun 15»
Eat your words at Ballymaloe
In it, he describes how he cast aside the napkin-folding, water-pouring fustiness of posh restaurants and opened a sustainable, high-quality ... «Irish Examiner, May 15»
Exclusive: We Already Know Who The Winner Of Today's Election Is
... is an argument that it might not be a bad thing for the universities to bring in celebrities and media folk to dilute the academic fustiness of their ... «Breitbart News, May 15»
Craft, heritage and revolution for the water of life
Whereas the younger consumers think 'I don't want all that fustiness that goes with it'.” The market is shifting. Brands rooted in centuries of ... «Transform magazine, Apr 15»
Review: 'Beyond' by Chris Impey
... which humans set out to colonize a new star system aboard "arks," "Beyond" avoids the fustiness of an academic survey — despite numerous ... «Chicago Tribune, Apr 15»
Sir Philip Carter
... Douglas Hurd, Carter was considered by some to represent the old-school fustiness from which the breakaway league was trying to escape. «The Times, Apr 15»
