10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OUT AT ELBOW»
Discover the use of
out at elbow in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
out at elbow and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
There is the out-at-elbow look of the shut-up house where everything seems
afraid of the daylight; and the out-at-elbow look of the breezy house — the house
which always has all its doors and windows open, with never a chimney- corner ...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
Elbow is your name ? Why dost thou not speak, Elbow 2 ? Clo. He cannot, sir ;
he's out at elbow. " Lyke as the brake within the rider's hande " Doth straine the
horse nye wood with grief of paine, " Not us'd before to come in such a band," &c.
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, 1821
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With ...
He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow. I am not satisfied with either the old or present
reading of this very difficult passage ; yet have nothing better to propose. The
modern reading, vice, was introduced by Mr. Rowe. In King Henry V III. we have ...
William Shakespeare, 1793
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Measure for ...
Elbow is your name ? Why dost thou not speak, Elbow 2 ? CLO. He cannot, sir ;
he's out at elbow. " Lyke as the brake within the rider's hande " Doth straine the
horse nye wood with grief of paine, " Not us'd before to come in such a band," &c.
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, 1821
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and ...
... against the stage about this time: " Precise villains they are, that I am sure of;
and void of all profanation in the world, that good christians ought to have."
Farmer. Clo. He cannot, sir; he 's out at elbow. ,Ang. 346 MEASURE FOR
MEASURE.
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, 1805
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Measure for Measure: Evans Shakespeare Edition
Why dost thou not speak, Elbow? 60 pompey He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow.
angelo What are you, sir? elbow He, sir! A tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that
serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was (as they say) pluck'd down in the
suburbs; ...
ragged; shabby; worn out: He always wears that old jacket although it is out at
elbow. El Dorado El Dorado a place where it is easy to make money (often only
in theory, or in the imagination): America was believed by many emigrants to be
El ...
He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow. “ Lyke as the brake within the rider's hande “
Doth straine the horse nye wood with grief of paine, “ Not us'd before to come in
such a band,“ 8-'.c. HENLEY. I am not satisfied with either the old or present
reading ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821
The dramatic episodes I have in mind, striking to modern as well as to early
modern audiences, are the verbal miscues of Elbow the Constable and the
language lesson of Princess Katherine of France. A personification of the out-at-
elbow ...
Marjorie Garber, William R Kenan Jr Professor of English Marjorie Garber, 2008
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
... you use a bit of elbow'grease you'll get that floor clean. elbow-room space
enough for moving or doing something: Get out of my way and give me some
elbow-room! more power to his elbow see power. out at elbow (formal) ragged;
shabby; ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
