10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORTIONLESS»
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portionless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
portionless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
Did she daub the twigs with birdlime, so that no birds would come to roost; or was
Milly portionless? Was she portionless? Poor Milly was the victim to as cowardly
a swindle as ever came before the public. Her father, now many years dead, ...
Did she daub the twigs with birdlime, so that no birds would come to roost; or was
Milly portionless ? Was she portionless ? Poor Milly was the victim to as cowardly
a swindle as ever came before the public. Her father, now many years dead, ...
George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates,
1865
3
The Shadow of Ashlydyat
Only, take care that there's money." "Money is desirable in itself. But it does not
invariably bring happiness, sir." "I never heard that it brought unhappiness,
Master George. I cannot have you both marry portionless women. Thomas has
chosen ...
4
Plays by F. A. Kemble. An English tragedy: a play ... Mary ...
Portionless! why, the giving of yourself, Decked as you are with charms not of this
earth— Turn not away, I speak the common words Of all men, where your name
is only uttered—— Was the bestowing of so great a gift, That, tho' he should ...
afterwards BUTLER KEMBLE (Frances Anne),
1863
But it does not invariably bring happiness, sir." " I never heard that it brought
unhappiness, Master George. I cannot have you both marry portionless women.
Thomas has chosen one who has nothing : it will not do for you to follow his
example.
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton,
1861
6
The New Monthly Magazine
But it does not invariably bring happiness, sir.” “ I never heard that it brought
unhappiness, Master George. I cannot have you both marry portionless women.
Thomas has chosen one who has nothing: it will not do for you to follow his
example.
Sarah Harriet Burney. tector I have lost, to omit in this last deed, the name of my
poor injured Adela ! The unhappy predicament in which she stands with her
unrelenting father, always filled him with alarm and sorrow. Portionless, or nearly
...
Sarah Harriet Burney,
1812
8
Judaism And Hellenism Reconsidered
... word μοιρος, “portionless,” in connection with a corpse that is left portionless of
earth, a major theme in Jewish law (Ant. 4.265: “Let not a corpse be left
portionless of earth”) and in both Ajax (1326-27: ταφς νεκρν μοιρον) and
Antigone (1071: ...
9
The Master of the Hounds
Stuff and nonsense, Blanche ! you are not a portionless girl, and never shall be, if
I can prevent it, even if that old croaker Harcourt's prognostications are verified ;
as Constance and myself have resolved to place a hundred thousand pounds at
...
Knightley Willia Horlock,
1863
Oh ! let me think how much he was his friend Who married me, portionless,
friendless ! ALFORD. Madam ! What is 't you say ? portionless ! Where 's the
dower Might with your wealth of beauty hold compare ? Portionless ! why, the
giving of ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORTIONLESS»
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Why Thoreau Wouldn't Buy a Prius
The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet ... «OnEarth Magazine, Oct 11»