10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIMPSY»
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595 Pulpit Pungencies: With a Table of Contents
With a Table of Contents Henry Ward Beecher. ALL around about you are men
whom you despise and call shiftless — empty bags, who never will stand up
although you EraptybasS Men fill them ever so many times. Don t you torn
Limpsy ...
The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside, I heard his motions
crackling the twigs of the woodpile, Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I
saw him limpsy and weak, And went where he sat on a log and led him in and ...
Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin,
1997
1. flaccid, unfirm, out of tone; droop- I ing, pendulous, quaggy, limp, DiaI. limpsy,
Inf. out of shape. 2. weak, feeble, impotent, powerless, strengthless; I nerveless,
spineless, SI. gutless, SI. chicken. laccid, dcli. flabby, unfirm; drooping, pendulous
...
Jerome Irving Rodale,
1978
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The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
limpsy Lethargic, slow. “There comes Sam Lawson down the hill, limpsy as ever;
now he'll have his doleful story to tell, and mother'll give him one of the turkeys.” (
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks, 1869) lock horns 261 limp-to-quaddle ...
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When life is young: a collection of verse for boys and girls
THE FROG, THE CRAB AND THE LIMPSY EEL A frog, a crab and a limpsy eel
Agreed to run a race. The frog leaped so far he lost his way. And tumbled on his
face. The crab went well, but quite forgot To go ahead as he went, And so
crawled ...
6
St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks
THE FROG, THE CRAB, AND THE LIMPSY EEL. A FROG, a crab, and a limpsy
eel Agreed to run a race. The frog leaped so far he lost his way, And tumbled on
his face. The crab went well, but quite forgot To go ahead as he went, And so ...
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Babylonian cups; or, Behind the scenes, by a special ...
Quiet women, bold women ; modest women, flaunting women ; young women,
old women ; the girl and the grandmother ; the monde and the demi-monde; the
strictly virtuous, and those whose chastity is at least hazy, — all throng into
Limpsy's ...
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The Vocabulary of East-Anglia Etc. - London, J. B. Nicols 1830
LIMP, LIMPSY, aa'j. flaccid. Apparently a contraction of limber. on. A. LINE, '0. to
beat; from the implement of chastisement, a rope's end. L. sc. LINK, s. a sausage.
From the usual mode of forming sausages, it should seem, that a single one, ...
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Visions, Voices & Violence: A Fictional Memoir
Pickin up the limpsy creature and gatherin together the bend-ded bike, Billy spit-
ted agin, “Ah say'd fuck off, murderer!” The streetcar driver brushed at the
youngster's co at and coveralls, so worn, ragged and mussed, he could not detect
the ...
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
'like the skim on milk.' Formed by adding y to Dan. dial. flims, flems, skim on milk;
cf. EFries. flēm,flīm, afilm. These forms are allied toE.film. Iftheending wassy (as
from EFries. flīm), cf. tipsy, bumpsy, also limpsy, given by Webster as the
synonym.
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