10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KNUCKLY»
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knuckly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Dialect of West Somerset: A Paper Read Before the ...
KNUCKLY [nuuk-ulee], v. i. r. Applied to the stalks of corn, &c. To become
crippled, or beaten down. I be afeard that there whate 'ont stan' up : lookth maain
knuckly, I zim. 2. To move or walk in a shambling or halting manner. Poor old
fellow, he ...
Frederick Thomas Elworthy,
1875
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The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and ...
KNUCKLY [nuuk-ulee], v. i. i. Applied to the stalks of corn, &c. To become
crippled, or beaten down. □I be afeard that there whate 'ont stan' up : Iookth
maain knuckly, I zim. 2. To move or walk in a shambling or halting manner. Poor
old fellow ...
Frederick Thomas Elworthy,
1886
3
Double-take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology
She was on her feet; her poor little body, her bare knuckly hands bravely defying
the strapping hulk before her. "Looka heah, Sykes, you done gone too fur. Ah
been married to you fur fifteen years, and Ah been takin' in washin' fur fifteen
years.
Venetria K. Patton, Maureen Honey,
2001
Satori felt with his knuckly fingers for his knuckly glasses, adjusted them and
began reading again. He hadn't looked at me. Now even at that time, I was
unwilling to stand for this sort of treatment. To remain unnoticed filled me with
reckless ...
those hideous knuckly fingers, so, none the less, every reason with which our
preference for a better condition and a nobler fate could possibly bristle kept
battering at my heart, kept, in fact, pushing into it, after the fashion of a crowd of
the ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell,
1917
Thomas the knuckly, had never intended to destroy the Doctor's treatise, and was
grievously shocked and shamed when he saw how well his ruse had succeeded.
Thomas Qnandoquidem was a good lad for all his deficiencies in hie, lnee, ...
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JOYCE'S ULYSSES FOR EVERYONE
We are often rather like the dog in the same Lestrygonian chapter of Ulysses who
"choked up a sick knuckly cud on the cobblestones and lapped it with new zest.
Surfeit. Returned with thanks having fully digested the contents." (p. 147) We ...
8
Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
12 We hear Jekyll comparehis own ''professional'' identity with that of Hyde, who
at least in the second of these statements seems both proletarian (his hand is ''
corded'' and ''knuckly'' as if he does manual labor) and racially other (his skin is ...
Thomas the knuckly, had never intended to destroy the Doctor's treatise, and was
grievously shocked and shamed when he saw how well his ruse had succeeded.
Thomas Quandoquidem was a good lad for all his deficiencies in hic, hsec, ...
And she wasn't even smart.” “You sound like you knew her,” Dave said. His hair
was black and lank, lusterless, uncombed. It went inside the greasy collar of his
shirt when he shook his head. He ran long, knuckly fingers under it to free it.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KNUCKLY»
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Unmasking Artist Vanessa Callanta
You can have the most beautiful face, but you can have the most dry, big and knuckly hands, and I think that's awesome. I'd love to incorporate faces and hands ... «Santa Clara Weekly, Jun 15»
DEAD RECKONING: The Power of Pulling Your Weeds
The tendrils of this green disease penetrate every dark recess of our hedgerow, tangling up its roots and suffocating our foilage with its knuckly ... «Lost Coast Outpost, May 15»
Three new comics worth a read
The lovely, almost distracting way that Zach Worton limns hands – gnarled and knuckly – calls attention to his own determined handicraft ... «The Globe and Mail, Apr 15»
Movie review: Get Hard (15)
GET Hard gets by on an almost constant stream of near-the-knuckly gags - playing on rich white people's prejudices about ethnic minorities. «Scottish Daily Record, Mar 15»
Should you buy an E46 BMW M3?
While the lever doesn't slice through the cogs with the feel you'd expect for such a layout, it does at least enable quick, albeit knuckly changes. In this day and ... «Evo, Feb 15»
Billy Keane: Kingdom playing for the living and the dead
There was much head-scratching and the word conundrum was used by mentoring parents on knuckly bohereen, baldy haggard and lush ... «Irish Independent, Sep 14»
I Hated English Class, Until We Read Nabokov
Professor Beaujour had long, thin fingers—beautifully knuckly—and the more excited she got, the more she waved them around. «The New Republic, Aug 14»
AN NGA RALLY: Horne, Looper close in on tourney leader
“Not that your ball sits down, but it comes out knuckly, and when it hits on these firm greens, it's just gone. If you keep it in the fairway, you can ... «The Daily Advance, Jun 14»
Crime pays, for writer Gavin
And I loved working with a deadline - I got into a routine and had to knuckly down and knock out my target each day. “I later did a post-graduate ... «Scottish Daily Record, May 14»
Island Creek Oyster founder Skip Bennett's rise to culinary fame
Before the knuckly-shelled morsels from Island Creek Oysters make it onto the white plates of establishments such as the French Laundry, they ... «Undercurrent News, Apr 14»