10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAWKILY»
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pawkily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for ...
Nor is there any suggestion of a sinister motive, or of anything more, indeed, than
native shrewdness and caution, in Galt's use of “ pawkily ” i. 85: “ 'I'm thinking,'
said he, looking pawkily and peerin ly round the table, ' that I have seen you be ...
... us came, cried, `Had ye merry a'.' We ferlied meikle at his unco look, While frae
his pouch he whirled forth a book. 10 As we stood round about him on the green,
He viewed us a', but fixed on Pate his een; Then pawkily pretended he could ...
Christopher Maclachlan, 2010
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Says, Blessings light on his pawkie ee ! Remains of Nithsdale Song, p. 78.
Pawtehy, Cunning, slyness, S. " Nethynge— was ferder fra myne heid thane onye
sikkan wylld sneckdrawinge and patvkerye." Hogg's Winter Tales, ii. 41.Pawkily,
adv.
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
M'lver laughed pawkily. " Come, come, Dalness," said he, "do you take us for girls
? You have every man left in Glencoe at your back there; you're as much ours as
if you were in the tolbooth of Inneraora 0 ; and I would just be mentioning that if ...
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Sir Andrew Wylie, of that ilk, by the author of 'Annals of ...
... grannie, ye ken," said Sir Andrew, pawkily, " what a rise has since been in the
price of butter and cheese — that, to be sure, may have gi'en a lift to the rent o'
land ; but then the daylabourer's wage it's doubled, and coats and hats are twa ...
As he said it. he was tapping his snuff-mull and looking at me pawkily out of the
corners of his eyes, that hovered between me and his wife, who stood with the
wool in her hand, beaming mildly up in my face. I half turned on my heel and set
a ...
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Neighbouring Eyes: A Tale of 1951
Brenan's father, sitting up in his chair now, said pawkily, “I see your paper has got
all old Tievas' troubles packed up for him.” “Oh? Did I miss something good when
I glanced through it this morning?” “Well,you know how handy theycan ...
son, ' The Glendale martyr,' " and another in London. During the last four years
not one Sassenach or laird dare shoot a deer in their midst." Mr. Kenneth
Davidson, Black Isle, pawkily observed that the men in his district intended to
fight, but ...
9
Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated the Print Collector
Mr. Roughead is a first-class exhibitor of literary Chambers of Horrors; but he
does his work in so cheerful a way, in such racy style, with so many lighter
touches of sly, if sometimes pawkily Scottish, humour, that he makes his
Chamber of ...
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transactions and proceedings of the third annual meeting of ...
The old gentleman, however, was too old for him, for he pawkily shelved the
question by quietly saying, " Aye, man, if I were to tell, you wouldn't believe me."
On the 8th of October, 1878, he paid his last visit to the Signet Library, and on the
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ernest c. thomas, charles welch, 1881
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAWKILY»
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pawkily is used in the context of the following news items.
Late hitting sets England 350 to win
Elliott, who began pawkily (six from 18 balls) recovering to strike Willey for three successive boundaries and reach his fifty at better than a run a ... «Pakistan Observer, Jun 15»
South Africa resist before heavy rain
He despatched the quicks crisply through the off side, while the Yorkshireman, Tim Bresnan, resisted pawkily alongside him before he edged ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Aug 12»
The Warrior's Dilemma
While every part of APT's traditionally costumed staging makes a satisfying impression—I was especially pleased by the pawkily comic Ariel of ... «Wall Street Journal, Sep 11»
