10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POKERISHLY»
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pokerishly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pokerishly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
(colloquial).—1. Stiff ;reserved :hence pokerishly. 1867. Broughton, As a Flower,
xxxvi. I'm afraid I'm interrupting a pleasant têteatête,' says the old lady pokerishly.
18S3. Century Mag., xxxvi. 35. Stiff and pokerish,Ella called her. 2. (American).
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Appletons' Short-trip Guide to Europe. [1868.] Principally ...
mer, splendid statue of Rudolph von Erlach in front, etc.; the , Terrasse de
Cathedral, a beautiful promenade, hanging pokerishly over the Aar, with some
interesting monuments; a tough story of a knight, who 'once leaped down into the
Aar on ...
3
Cometh Up as a Flower: An Autobiography
I am afraid I'm interrupting a pleasant tite-a-Ute F says the old lady, pokerishly, "
but I heard your voice, my dear Dorothea, and I thought I must come in and just
say how d'ye do to you. Are not you very tired after your journey, my dear child 1 ...
4
Health Trip to the Tropics
Or, there was a ladder to lead us more pokerishly downward. One place, called "
the Fat Man's Misery," was the mere zigzag through cracks in the rock. Another
was a quarter of a mile called " the Valley of Humility," along which we almost ...
Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1853
Oh ! she went to a panorama of something or other, either of the Nile or a whaling
voyage, I forget which ; and you know all such places are pokerishly dark u
abysses profound," and when she came out, her two magnificent John Chinamen
...
MRS HARRISON GRAY OTIS, 1854
The evidence that he looks pokerishly supernatural is in tho trouble we had to get
Quinty — the bravest of terriers and brought up among stumps and logs — to go
anywhere near the monster. He half howled when ordered to come to ui as we ...
Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1859
This was in conformity with the by-laws, and was for a long time, three or four
years, rigidly adhered to, but after a while some of the pokerishly inclined
members (gambling being strictly prohibited) procured keys of their own to the
rooms and ...
Friend Palmer, Harry P. Hunt, Charles Mills June, 1906
8
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
She was surely right in thinking that Austen's novels, as novels, were unlikely
candidates for mass consumption and global fame, that there was a great deal
about them, in fact, that was uncompromising and pokerishly unbending, that
their ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: N to Raz
(colloquial). — I. Stiff ; reserved : hence poker- isnlv. 1867. Bfougnton, As a
Flower, xxx vi. I'm afraid I'm interrupting a pleasant tete-a-tete,' says the old lady
POKERISHLY. 1883. Century Mag., xxxvi. 35. Stiff and poeer1sn, Ella called he1.
2.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1902
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Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890: Sensation ...
Simultaneously, we vault off our high horses. 'I am afraid, I'm interrupting a
pleasant tete-a-tete !'3 says the old lady, pokerishly, 'but I heard your voice, my
dear Dorothea, and I thought I must come in and just say how d'ye do to you ...
Andrew Maunder, Sally Mitchell, Tamar Heller, 2004
