10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIZABLE»
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prizable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prizable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A new treatise on chess
Prizable. A man when en prise is termed prizable by Mr. Pratt in his edition of
Philidor ; and I see no objection to the word being generally adopted. Queening a
Pawn. You are said to Queen a Pawn when you place it on the eighth square of ...
2
Thoughts for the thoughtful, by old Humphrey
For twenty years of my life, I was a diver in books, and brought up stores of
knowledge that to me were prizable, gems of thought and costly pearls of
reflection : but all this time I was as much a stranger to myself as I was to the
bottom of the sea ...
3
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine
ducted himself with that transcendent ability and untiring earnestness which
everywhere distinguished him, and was especially acceptable to the Chief
Secretary, to whom the cares of office were chiefly prizable as affording him the
means of ...
4
The Mind's Monitor; Or, a Serious Discourse on the ...
Hunting, Shooting, Wine, or Women, however intoxicating their , Lure, scarce
survive the Moment. Then where is the Fund of a constant Supply of Happiness?
Surely such a Resource must be prizable in Na'ture. Is it within the Compass of
the ...
Charles Atkinson (surgeon.), 1793
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary
Prizable:unprizable. Probable: improbable. Probate: reprobate. Probation:
approbation;reprobation. Profit: unprofited. Profitable: unprofitable;
wholesomeprofitable. Promise: breakpromise. Proof: agueproof; approof;
highproof; pistolproof; ...
6
The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support
There is a secret hope accompanying the greatest part of the troubles of the
Lord's family, which is more prizable to them than all the false light and false fire
of a whole-hearted professor. Blessed be the Lord, now and then he gives them a
lift ...
7
Making War and Minting Christians: Masculinity, Religion, ...
... Discipline: military expertise, valor, justice, temperance, and liberality. these
traits were important, he suggested, because “love ofour Generall, Captain, or
Commander [is] aJem more prizable and estimate, then the best Armours” and
one of ...
8
Characteristics of old church architecture & c. in the ...
... animated toil could scarcely have failed to get hold of even a more errant and
prizable commodity than a highland quern. After a brief time, our small huntsmen,
topful of laughter and glee, returned with the joyful news that the game had ...
9
An encyclopaedia of rural sports: or a complete account, ...
known in common parlance as Nock's original patent breeching, formed the next
important addition to the gun ; and it will stand as a monument to his judgment
and ingenuity as long as guns are prizable articles ; for, as Colonel Hawker justly
...
Delabere Pritchett Blaine, 1870
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The history of New South Wales
A piece of ferruginous stone found by Mr. Bass, and resembling a bunch of
grapes in form, had the appearance of having bubbled out of the fissure of a rock.
-_-“ But the most prizable “ objects,” says Mr. Mann, _“ which have been “
discovered ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIZABLE»
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Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History
The lines between life and music are tangled, of course, in ways that aren't neatly prizable, and darker stories eventually creep into the frame at ... «Pitchfork Media, Oct 13»
