10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSIEST»
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Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth- ...
Sigismund wrote romantic fictions by wholesale, and yet was unromantic as the
prosiest butcher. . . . He sold his imagination, and Isabel lived upon hers. . . . He
slapped his heroes into shape as coolly as a butterman slaps a pat of butter into ...
Tamar Heller, Patricia Moran, 2012
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
19c: from Latin Prosimia, from simia an ape. prosier and prosiest see under
PROSY prosody /'prosadi, -zadi/ e» noun 1 the study of verse- composition,
especially poetic metre. 2 (also prosodies /pra'sodiks/) the study of rhythm, stress
and ...
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The Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science and the Fine Arts
The mflrrlailes Vatican is to receive the valuable collection of I has wisely and
beautifully design —Mr. Nicholas \Vood, models of coal working,— ' philosopher.
Even the prosiest of old chroniclers, lowering miners,—the proprietors of the ...
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The Dowager: Or, The New School for Scandal
It was really a gratification to him, therefore, when the air of anxious attention and
polite interjections of interest with which well-bred foreigners listen to the prosiest
of stories, led him to believe that Massimo Mazzini was profoundly interested in ...
Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), 1840
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The Memorial: Or, The Life and Writings of an Only Daughter
... me when its might is too severe, and keep all my goings, that my feet slip not in
icy paths. Then, indeed, will this heart be ready for an eternal spring." CHAPTER
XVII. THE dullest, prosiest place, to common eyes, -was AN ONLY DAUGHTER.
Martha Stone Hubbell, David Marvin Stone, 1857
... over passion and the sophistries of passion, the merit of “ Jane Eyre" is
rcéininent. The book is spirit and it is life. It cmands spirit and life in the reader; its
power almost creates them in the prosiest of readers—in n dry-as-dust anatomy ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1852
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The Amazing Illustrated Word Game Memory Books Volume 2, Set ...
... SURLIEST SISTERLY STYLISER MISTERMS EROTISMS MORTISES
TRISOMES IMPRESTS MISTRESS METRISTS PROSIEST PROSTIES
REPOSITS RIPOSTES TRIOSES RESISTOR ROISTERS SORRIEST SEROSITY
STRIPERS ...
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Romance Novels, Romantic Novelist. Francis Marion Crawford
... United States would lick off the “spice of European life, which is as sweet as
honey to the Bostonians” and reduce him to a uniform American dullness that
turned poetry into the “prosiest prose.”11 To avoid that, he and Bessie stayed on
in ...
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Our Mutual Friend, Vol. I ~ Paperbound
For then, an inclined plane of unfortunate infants would be handed over to the
prosiest and worst of all the teachers with good intentions, whom nobody older
would endure. Who, taking his stand on the floor before them as chief
executioner, ...
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Random recollections of the House of Lords: from the year ...
There is no life or vitality at all about him when addressing the House. His words
fall from his lips as if coming from those of a piece of statuary. He is one of the
prosiest speakers in the House. You never see, in anything he says or does, the ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSIEST»
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prosiest is used in the context of the following news items.
DVDanger: Horror in 150 Words or Less: Putting a stake through …
Stretching the purple-prosiest of the horror writer's 1933 short story into a full feature, the semi-am-dram production modernizes and adds a greasy, green sheen ... «Austin Chronicle, Dec 14»
'Regular Singing,' by Richard Nelson, at Public Theater
Mr. Nelson has a precisely tuned ear for the currents of aggression and propitiation that course through the prosiest family talk. And every member of his cast ... «New York Times, Nov 13»
End of the Line
The prosiest poets would not: there is no William Carlos Williams, or H.D., or George Oppen, without line breaks. Phillips is one of the latter. His chief subject is ... «New Yorker, Apr 13»
'In quest of poor Thomas Bracken'
In your prosiest moods as you wander to Ocean Beach and St Clair does it never strike you that these spots are rendered sacred by Bracken's footsteps? «Otago Daily Times, Dec 11»
The power beneath the bonnet
She's among the prosiest of prose writers; a great antidote to silliness at all times. And that's why - when imagining the whole blood-on-crinoline scenario - part ... «Daily Mail, Apr 09»
