10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONTHLING»
Discover the use of
monthling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
monthling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
New Folklore Researches: Folk-prose
8 ' What does Nine stand for ?' ' God is one, etc., etc., a nine monthling is the child
.' ' What does Ten stand for ?' ' God is one, etc., etc., a ten monthling is the calf.' '
What does Eleven stand for ?' ' God is one, etc., etc., an eleven monthling is the ...
Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John Stuart Stuart Glennie,
1896
2
Greek Folk Poesy: Folk prose. The survival of paganism
God is one, etc., etc., eight windings has the Archipelago." ' What does Nine
stand for ?' ' God is one, etc., etc., a nine monthling is the child.' ' What does Ten
stand for ?' <r ' God is one, etc., etc., a ten monthling is the calf.' fl ' What does
Eleven ...
John S. Stuart-Glennie,
1896
3
The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth
Yet hail to Thee, Frail, feeble Monthling ! — by that name, methinks, Thy scanty
hreathing-time is portioned out Not idly. — Hadst thou been of Indian birth,
Couched on a casual bed of moss and leaves, And rudely canopied by leafy
boughs, ...
One more there is at home doth sit, the youngest of the three, Her boy is but a
suckling yet, a monthling babe is he; To her, when noontide hour was nigh, 'twas
thus her mother said, “ Give me the basket, daughter, the workmen must have ...
5
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
It 's a her,' replied Hepsy, looking at the scrawny monthling with affectionate pride
, ' and we laid out to call her Hepsy after me, but it do n't make no odds, we had
just as loose save it for the next one.' ' ' Call her Polly, then, after my wife ; and ...
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark,
1862
Not content with the rude divisions into infancy and childhood and boyhood, he
marks it into more minute epochs: — the babe in " new-born helplessness;" — the
" frail and feeble monthling," on whose face " Smiles are beginning, like the ...
Francis Lister Hawks, Lambert Lilly, Caleb Sprague Henry,
1839
'Pitlochry all right?' she offered, judging from his open, eager-to-please
expression that this would be more than enough. 'Brilliant!' he enthused, jumping
in. He had a big meaty face, a bit like a monthling already, with tight blond curls at
the top ...
8
An Introduction to Late Modern English
The first uses we do find in the OED for Wordsworth are after-years, fieldward,
monthling and pennied, all of which are Anglo-Saxon in nature, though none
survived into PDE. Thackeray, according to Phillipps (1978: 129), was the first to
use ...
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,
2009
9
The poems of William Wordsworth
But what is time ! What outward glory I neither A measure is of Thee, whose
claims extend Through 'heaven's eternal year.' — Yet hail to Thee, Frail, feeble,
Monthling ! — by that name, methinks, Thy scanty breathing-time is portioned out
Not ...
William [poetical works] Wordsworth,
1845
10
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together ...
Yet hail to Thee, Frail, feeble Monthling ! — by that name, methinks, Thy scanty
breathing time is portioned out Not idly. — Hadst thou been of Indian birth,
Couched on a casual bed of moss and leaves, And rudely canopied by leafy
boughs, ...
William Wordsworth, Henry Reed,
1839