10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JONAHESQUE»
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Jonahesque in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Jonahesque and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Darwin's Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology, ...
Finally, I must confess that I have been so far unable to corroborate the
Jonahesque story about a burrfish chomping its way out of a shark's stomach.
Butterfishes Members of the Family Stromateidae, with about a dozen species.
These coastal ...
2
Over the Top: Humorous Mountaineering Tales
A Jonahesque bait fish view if there ever was one. The shell of ice was glowing
and Bridalveil Falls poured down the gap between the gently ribbed ice and the
chunky black rock. The thought of busting through was inescapable. Could a ...
3
Some Wild Visions : Autobiographies by Female Itinerant ...
... gains the attention of the crowd, and expounds upon her own Jonahesque
failure to answer God's call, regardless of such worldly obstacles as the
presumably discomfited Allen: "I told them I was like Jonah; for it had been then
nearly eight ...
Elizabeth Elkin Grammer Assistant Professor of English University of the South, 2002
4
Sherman Exposed: Slightly Censored Climbing Stories
When the angle relented, a hole in the ice greeted me that a sports car could
drop through. From powder blue to aqua to navy and indigo then black, the gullet
descended. A Jonahesque bait fish view if there ever was one. The shell of ice
was ...
2. unfortunate, unlucky, hapless, luckless, un- prosperous, out of luck; unblessed,
hopeless, wretched, cursed, accursed, crossed; ill-starred, ill-fated, star- crossed,
born under an evil star; jinxed, hoodooed, Jonahesque, under a cloud, born ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
6
The Babinski reflex: and 70 other useful and amusing ...
If Maslow was right about the extraordinary potential we possess for
accomplishment, joy, and fulfillment, then we owe it to ourselves to face up to our
own jonahesque tendencies. For example: "So what if I'm forty. I've been putting
off what I ...
7
The Society of the Poem
Spengler and Ortega y Gasset, with their happily twinning titles, The Decline of
the West and The Revolt of the Masses, were the Jonahesque prophets of the
movement. Novelists like Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell have been among
its ...
8
Parental Guidance Advised: Adult Preaching from the Old ...
Onereading ofthis parable supports thejudgmental interpretationsof Jonah
rejected above, embracing the Gentiles who have comelate to the Lord, and
castigating the Jews fortheir Jonahesque narrowness andlack of generosity.
Indeed,the ...
Alyce M McKenzie, Charles L Aaron, 2013
9
James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor)
then tells a Jonahesque parable, which parallels the cycle of the liver fluke. When
the minister says, "But I am wearying you, with my havers [poppycock]," the irony
has several shades. McCrim- mon's Olympian attitude is patronizing, and the ...
10
A College Developmental Reading Manual
Sometimes we could pass dry-shod like Peter over a wide stretch of calmer
obsidian ocean, with here or there the fin of a shark or the head of a turtle
protruding, or in a Jonahesque manner would chum familiarly with a mighty glass
whale.
Stephen Vincent Wilking, Robert G. Webster, 1943
