10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYPHLOESBOEAN»
Discover the use of
polyphloesboean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
polyphloesboean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Two men are walking by the polyphloesboean ocean, one of them having a small
tin cup wit which he can scoop up a gill of sea-water when he will, and the other
nothing but his hands, which will hardly hold water at all—and you call the tin ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1861
2
Our Hundred Days In Europe
P'd6ose, 5, 81. Pimpant, 2, 136. Pleasing vegetables, elms called, 1, 236.
Polyphloesboean, 1, 83. Popped, a hat sat down upon, 1, 178. Porcellarium, 6,
382. Port-chuck, an inhabitant of Cam- bridgeport, 1, 177 ; 8, 240. Psychometers,
6, 157.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2007
3
The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, ...
... languid spot where I am apt to spend my vacations by the sound of the
polyphloesbian,* the *Poluphloisbos is a Homeric epithet for the sea, meaning "
very noisy." The usual An- glicization is "polyphloesboean." — Ed. mosquito and
the crow ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard A. Posner, 1997
4
The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
—Two men are walking by the polyphloesboean ocean, one of them
havingasmall tin cup with which he canscoop upa gill of seawaterwhen he will,
and the other nothing buthis hands, which will hardly hold water at all, —and you
call the tin ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
5
The Entire Works of Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Two men are walking by the polyphloesboean ocean, one of them having a small
tin cup with which he can scoop up a gill of sea-water when he will, and the other
nothing but his hands, which will hardly hold water at all, —and you call the tin ...
6
The autocrat of the break-fast table. 1895
Two men are walking by the polyphloesboean ocean, one of them having a small
tin cup with which he can scoop up a gill of sea-water when he will, and the other
nothing but his hands, which will hardly Hold water at all, — and you call the ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1899
7
The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes
P'doose, 5, 81. Pimpant, 2, 136. Pleasing vegetables, elms called, 1, 236.
Polyphloesboean, 1, 83. Popped, a hat sat down upon, 1, 178. Porcellarium, 6,
382. Port-chuck, an inhabitant of Cam- bridgeport, 1, 177 ; 8, 240. Psychomotors,
6, 157.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1895
8
The Osprey: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Popular ...
... Mr. Oberholser can turn out more kinds of a bird than anybody else, except,
perhaps, Dr. Edgar A. Mearn's or Mr. Outram Hangs, and provide them all with
correctly formed, sonorous, not to say polyphloesboean, Graeco-Latin names. To
our ...
9
Words of Wisdom: Keys to Success in the Scripps National ...
There are over one hundred exercises, spelling tests, and activities where you can absorb more than 10,000 regional and national level words. If you are interested in competing on the national level, this book is for you.
Scott B. Remer, Erica E. Remer, 2012
10
The South Atlantic Quarterly
Like the genii of old, in sorrow or sickness, in time of stress or dubiety, they are
ever within call, waiting but for the movement of a hand to transport us to Orient or
tropic, through jungles or across the polyphloesboean sea. It was, for example, ...
John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, 1922
