10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLAGUY»
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plaguy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
plaguy . 'Pestilent'; CONFOUNDED; excessive, very great: coll: late C.17–20; ob.
Motteux, 1694, 'Women that have a plaguy deal of religion'; Punch, 17 May 1879,
'A plaguy rise in the price'.
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Mrs Partington's Kitting Work and What Was Done by Her ...
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A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
847.53 R. and B. 10.601 Plaguy. Then add there's still that plaguy hundredth
chance 462.77 Bishop B. 587 In plaguy books I've had to dip into 520.71 Sludge
122 "The while those plaguy allegations frown 702.32 R. and B. 3.1387 A plaguy
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Ballou's Monthly Magazine
"I had desp'rate bad luck with it this year; plaguy old sow; it looks just like sage,
but 'taint sage arter all; plaguy old critter. I don't know but I orter tell ye — plaguy
old sOW — if it didn't look sO much like sage I wouldn't, but now I'll tell jest how it
...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
Addijoa- •» PLAGUILY. adv. [from plaguy. 1 Vexati- oufly; horribly. A low word.—
He. has me fo plaguily under the lash, I dare not interrupt him. Dryden. — . •• • - • .
1 he doctor was plaguily down in -the. hips. □ □ □ - i Sivift. * PLAGUY, adj.
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The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
And cossestea the loveliest of forms. With the best and most noble of hearts, VIII.
htl cannot proceed with my lays, She comes, O, ye God", aUhindrest ! Aad 1 must
quit the tb«me of her praise, far the more solid blils of her breast. TH« PLAGUY ...
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The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
For ibc more solid blili of her breast, THE PLAGUY TONGUE. I. CLARINDA's form
was more than grace, The dread of ev'iy fair; A Thousand loves compos 'd her i*
□ , And revell'd in her hair; Jaa. 1769. Her sparkling wit was own'd by all.
Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber, 1769
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged
The Washington Market question, involving a contest between the State and the
city, furnishes a perfect placer in the shape of fees for some of our leading
lawyers. —N. Y. Herald, May 18, 1858. Plaguy. Horribly, awfully, exceedingly.
And so in ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1859
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Knitting-work: A Web of Many Textures, Wrought
A barber's pole- could not be removed from the barber's door and placed beside
the broker's, but it must be imputed to " that plaguy Ike ; " all clandestine pulls at
door-bells in the evenings were done by " that plaguy Ike ; " if a ball or an arrow ...
Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, 1859
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A glossary of words and phrases, ...
PLAGUY. In the United States used adverbially, in the same sense as plaguily.
The circumstances of the case should make the committee less " avidus glorias,"
for all praise of them would look plaguy suspicious. — Lord Byrun to Lord
Holland, ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1848
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLAGUY»
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The Key to Rereading
... he thought, that plaguy spirit of truth seeking which leaves me at present without a situation, and more than that, the cathedral offers company ... «The New York Review of Books, Jul 15»
Seven devices to protect your gadgets
Sure as shooting, there's continually a plaguy thought popping up every other second about the safety of our high-priced gadgets. Either haunted by a yore ... «TechGadgets.in, Jan 10»
