10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOAFERISH»
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loaferish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
loaferish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The American Phrenological Journal and Repository of ...
If the loafer have been repeatedly dressed like a gentleman, and always returned
to his loaferish look after a short time, there is good reason to believe that he is
one radically, and that he must be made the subject of a moral and intellectual ...
In Chicago. I spent three hours about town to-day and looked squarely into the
faces of more than a thousand loafers. I do not use the word "loafers" in scorn or
criticism but merely to describe the type. Their eyes were loaferish from different ...
3
Abstract of the Massachusetts School Returns, for ...
... or biography, rather than the consciousness that they were whiling away their
time in the bar-room, drinking, inoking, and acquiring other loaferish habits.
There is one other subject, to which your committee beg leave to direct your
attention.
4
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
I was in a more loaferish mood than usual, and thought I might as well ride to
town to pass the time. The hired man, whose name I have forgotten, was not
within call at the moment, so I went out to the stable to saddle Black Bess for
myself.
5
A Political Companion to Walt Whitman
One contemporary critic expressed his disgust for “this repulsive, loaferish portrait
with its sensual mouth.”130 The image seems to confirm the poet James Russell
Lowell's description of Whitman as “a rowdy, a New York tough, a loafer, ...
6
Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of ...
The first (at 119 Elm Street since 1826) Strong found to be "a shabby place with a
loaferish congregation"; the other (60 Crosby Street), although a "more decent"
congregation, was disappointing, for Strong found the services, conducted in ...
Vera Brodsky Lawrence, 1995
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Complete Western Romance Mystery Anthologies of Grace ...
He would always be commonand loaferish, anditwouldn't make anydifference
ifhedid, he would never becultured no matterhow much educationhe had.He was
notin her class. She kept saying that over. She said a lot ofthings and always ...
Like a fat, tawdry moth in his garments of soiled pink, a babu loitered past, with
never a sidelong glance for the loaferish figure in the shadowed doorway; and
the latter seemed himself absorbed in the family of Eurasians who were shrilly ...
9
Notes on the plan of Franklin Park
The keeping in one case was of a sort which in housekeeping might be
described as squalid, and the manners largely loaferish. In another the keeping
was comparatively neat and efiicient, the manners decorous and civil. No matter
what may ...
10
Critical Companion to Walt Whitman: A Literary Reference to ...
Weak, and silly indeed, must be that youth, who thinks that these are the
characteristics of manhood, they are much oftener the proofs of empty brains, and
a loaferish disposition. Perhaps the best that came from the “Sun-Down Papers”
was ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOAFERISH»
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loaferish is used in the context of the following news items.
What Lies Beneath: Walt Whitman by Samuel Hollyer
A friend of his thought it "repulsive, loaferish". With friends like that . . . . And that censored line? The one that would have corrupted the boys ... «Irish Independent, May 15»
Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #81 Kid Elberfeld
With trade rumors swirling around him and a suspension handed down by Barrow due to "loaferish conduct," as despite a .341/.412/.424 triple ... «Pinstripe Alley, Dec 14»
Dil Garden Garden takes Twitter by storm
It's loud, it's loaferish but it grows on you nevertheless. We've already been listening to it on loop! Twitter buzz. The song has hardly been out for ... «Hindustan Times, Jun 12»
