10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LARKISHNESS»
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Duffy's Hibernian magazine
... and had to bathe my feet, I shall never forget the affectionate larkishness with
which, entering my chamber in a body, they with langhing pity administered my
gruel. While the reign of this little queen lasted, its influence was tremendous ; but
, ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Whence larkishness. larks. In come half larks with (someone), to impose on that
person's credulity: low:—1923 (Manchon); ob. See lark, n., 1. larks in the night,
the. A 'jocular c.p. for birds which are regarded as responsible for more births
than ...
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The Well-Rested Woman: 60 Soothing Suggestions for Getting a ...
Probably because I believed larkishness was better than owlishness, and who
was I not to be taught this lesson? However, that all changed when I got to
college and learned the art of late to bed, late to rise makes a wise woman
whatever she ...
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The Life of Sir Halliday Macartney, K.C.M.G.: Commander of ...
In Europe and America we would probably attribute this excitement to the playful
larkishness of some Theodore Hook ; but that genius is unknown in China. The
black-haired race is too indolent to go to the trouble of manufacturing occasions ...
Demetrius Charles Boulger,
2011
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The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan
His Holiness quiteagreed with us that it wasmost desirable. “Really, the
Christiansought to make peacenow. They are three corpses and four gunsto the
good!” With their “larkishness” goes alsoa boy's touchiness and sensitiveness to
a slight.
Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
larkish . Fond of, or of the nature of, a LARK: from ca 1880. Whence larkishness.
larksome . Fond of a LARK, apt to indulge in 'larks': coll: from ca 1870. larky .
Ready or inclined to play 'larks' (see LARK, The Routledge dictionary of historical
...
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The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings
Roger Mouse is the third, a disreputable brigand with whom Godric sails as a
pirate, though “Mouse's sin smacked less of evil than of larkishness the likes of
which Our Lord himself could hardly help but wink at when he spied it out in
whore ...
... (one of them), for in fact we and our little craft really can simply wash ashore or
be ignominiously taken in tow by an uncomprehending Hank and Irma, who will
come to realize with dismay that, under our apparently irresponsible larkishness,
...
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Wagering on Transcendence: The Search for Meaning in Literature
... "What a sinner too was Mouse, but . . . what with all the man's great mirth, there
was [little] room left in him for truly mortal sin. . . . Mouse's sin smacked less of evil
than of larkishness the likes of which Our Lord himself could hardly help but ...
They left their passage trails in cloud and earth and water. It was a wilder and
more general larkishness than they had ever shown before. It was an enthusiasm
double enthused, but what was a little but wrong wi th that word? Enthuse means
...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LARKISHNESS»
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'Searching For Eddie Running Wolf': AmDocs Review
... over a few beers — at which point Searching for Eddie Running Wolf takes its abrupt left-field turn from larkishness into much darker terrain. «Hollywood Reporter, May 15»
Movies | Peter Jackson's vision dominates Hobbit series
Yet with the exception of brief Merry-Pippin subplots, there wasn't a lot of larkishness to the films. Which was as it should be, as there wasn't a ... «World Magazine, Dec 14»
Francis Ford Coppola's 3-D Twixt in Toronto: The Third D Is for …
Say this for Twixt: it has a jaunty morbidity, a cinematic larkishness to its meditations on violent death. If the film is not worthy of comparison to ... «TIME, Sep 11»
Baffled by Burn After Reading
... for Old Men, the brothers needed to reassert their old capricious cunning, their weasily larkishness, their independence from easy acclaim. «TIME, Aug 08»