10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHYSICIANER»
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1
Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast
In general, 'songster' is used to denote any Negro who regularly sings or makes
songs; 'musicianer' applies often to the individual who claims to be expert with
the banjo or the fiddle; while 'music physicianer' is used to denote more nearly a
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Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader
At ahnost the same time Will H. Thomas noted the tenn "songster"; seventy years
later both "songster" and "musicianer" were still in use, though "music physicianer
"—probably a medicine show term—had been discarded.' As early as I82I the ...
3
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 ...
He was compared with the 'musicianer,' who claimed 'to be an expert with the
banjo or fiddle.' Also used was the term 'music physicianer,' which probably
distinguished a performer on a medicine show from the 'doctor' or 'medical
physicianer.
John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, 2003
4
The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: The Abbot. Kenilworth. ...
I became,” said the smith, “ half partner, half domestic, to a man ofmuch skill and
little substance, who practised the trade of a physicianer.” “ In other words,” said
Tressilian, “ you were Jack Padding to a quack salver." “ Something beyond that ...
5
The Works of Walter Scott, Esq
Tut, " said the physicianer, .. let not your valour care for that; we shall tread darker
paths ere it be long." Without inquiring into the meaning of these evil-hoding
sentences, and indeed hardly listening to them , in the pride and recklessness
ofhis ...
6
The Prose Works: Containing The Abbot, Kenilworth, The ...
I became,” said the smith, “ half partner, half domestic, to a man of much skill and
little substance, who practised the trade of a physicianer.” “ In other words,” said
Tressiliau, “ you were Jack Pudding to a quack salver.” “ Something beyond that ...
7
The law of Java.- Blue-beard, or female curiosity
bemean yourself, to a physicianer. Arrah,isn't a cow-doctor as good as you, you
ould figman? BULL. . Old figman!—This rascal,too,quizzing my origin! —- Get
down stairs , or noonny. Don't come over me with the pride of your stair-case; ...
George Colman (the Younger), J.W. Lake, 1827
8
Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the ...
I have heard of a Cockney who could not be convinced that he was wrong in this
word, till he was asked by a friend if he ever heard of a physicianer ? — In
Leicestershire a mason is a masoner. 35 Quits is as bad as squits. It is the
language of ...
Samuel Pegge, Francis Grose, Henry Christmas, 1844
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Waverley Novels: Kenilworth
I became," said the smith, " half partner, half domestic, to a man of much skill and
little substance, who practised the trade of a physicianer." " In other words," said
Tressilian, " you were Jack Pudding to a quack-salver." " Something beyond that
...
10
Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in ...
... in African American terminology of the late eighteenth century, a songster or
music physicianer — could survive by singing and playing for fellow blacks.
Another advantage surely not lost upon those most hotly pursued: the
professional life ...
Graham Russell Hodges, 1997
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