10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUMMILY»
Discover the use of
gummily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gummily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Midnight Thirsts: Erotic Tales Of The Vampire: Erotic Tales ...
Building materials lay in piles around it, the corners piled high with resealed paint
cans, blue paint gummily dried down the sides. A wooden staircase stood in one
corner, winding around in a squarelike pattern up to the fourth floor.
Timothy Ridge, Michael T. Ford, Sean Wolfe, 2004
From then on, I couldn't help but see New York as replete not with man's best
friend, frisky and gummily smiling, but reproachful, slouching, neurotic mutts. As a
Chinese proverb has it, “The dog that is idle barks at his 12 KATE JENNINGS.
She shrank aside when she passed anyone on the stairs, and smiled gummily,
and fawned like a beaten cur, and hated herself for the fawning; the great golden
lions of Fox's Earth did not fawn. They would despise her even more. But she ...
Anne Rivers Siddons, 2008
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The Devil in Amber: A Lucifer Box Novel
'Tuppence,' she cawed, chewing gummily at her lips. 'Pleased to meet you,
Tuppence,' I said with more gaiety than I felt.The crone stared at me. I coughed as
the woodsmoke caught in my throat. 'Bloaters is tuppence,' insisted the contorted
...
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About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made
... unsticking farther and farther in astonishment. —Page 100. ... she'd shed all
her beauty aids, including the gummy substance ordinarily thickening her lashes.
—Page 103. ... after the first day, her lashes, when they lifted at all, lifted gummily.
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Translation-Driven Corpora: Corpus Resources for Descriptive ...
This pattern is used to render unconventional or creative uses in the source text
in an equally creative way (e.g. 'gummily' translated as gengivamente). In 25% of
the cases the adverb following 'said' is translated as con (with) followed by an ...
“I tooka knock tothehead saving this guy,”Kane explained. He looked atthe
Nagah who cradled what remained of his left arm. “Can you hear me?” The
royalguard blinked gummily. “Yes...” “The queen's still here!” Grant bellowed
fromthe throne ...
... beneath my chair. Anna gave me a roguish wink anddeparted, chewing
gummily onmy sandwich. By nowItrusted her enough to know my briefcase would
be emblazoned by aDepartment of Health sticker. But that Carlo . . . Ten minutes
later.
He grinned gummily down at Buchanan as though they were pals for life. It
seemed half a day before Morphy and Asa were unhitching the bow ropes.
Poche and Hyrum climbed into theLetty. Buchanan piled into Miss Saucy with
Ritter, both of ...
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Civilization: Tales of the Orient
... molasseslike substance, which ran slowly and gummily from the ladle into the
small silver box which the customer had produced. The box finally filled, with
some of the gummy, black contents running over the edges, our gentleman
withdrew ...
Ellen Newbold La Motte, 1970
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUMMILY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
gummily is used in the context of the following news items.
When multi-tasking went wrong
I exclaimed to the baby, who just grinned gummily. With a sense of purpose missing for the previous few hours, I zoomed in, switched off the ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
Blog: The devil is in the retail
From our earliest steps to our last moments, we experience the world through our five senses. Watching a child gummily chewing on a plastic ... «Event Magazine, May 15»
What Was the X-Girl?
She added — smiling gummily, cheesy PSA-style — "You, too, can do a fashion show." That DIY ethos came through in every detail of the show ... «New York Magazine, Apr 15»
50 shades of beige: English National Ballet's Modern Masters at …
The choreography is etiolated, physically and expressively, while Dvorak's Serenade smiles gummily on and on and on. There's another switch ... «Spectator.co.uk, Mar 15»
The battle of the burgers: who has stolen McDonald's crown?
Filet-O-Fish (I'll admit, I couldn't face a McRib), stuck gummily to the roof of my mouth and either the fries have changed, or I have. They were ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
Hilaria Baldwin and daughter Carmen sit in front row of NYFW …
Sitting patiently, albeit perched on mom Hilaria's lap, the toddler grinned gummily and clapped enthusiastically at the pretty dresses before her. «Daily Mail, Sep 14»
Reviews: Critics offer their verdict on 'The Judge'
Duvall is as gummily charismatic as ever, Downey good casting - nothing if not a convincing tool, self-conscious smirk a neat fit for the part. «The Republican - masslive.com, Sep 14»
The tooth hurts! Giant billboard appears in London mocking Luis …
The huge sign, erected by Paddy Power in Lambeth, shows the Uruguay player grinning gummily next to the caption: "Sorted". Underneath it ... «Express.co.uk, Jun 14»
Bad Neighbours
Then the camera cuts to a gurgling six-month-old baby, grinning gummily as daddy and mummy grapple. The mood is killed. The window to ... «The Times, May 14»
Top Gear's James May inspired me to drive like a Christian – but …
My behaviour mirrors that of old codgers who faff around on East Yorkshire roads at 35 miles an hour, chewing gummily and thinking: “I can't ... «Hull Daily Mail, Feb 14»
