10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAPIERED»
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rapiered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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THUNDERS ROLLING SHOULDERS
Rapiered skies' metallic wasp storms, soldiers nailed sockets' deep-thumb eyes;
a desert cactus flower's rare refrains' wisest similes bestilled. Suns heaved from
the oven of dreadful gardeners' whirring Godhead scythes rapiered skies' ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... sitting dos d dos, their state faces perked out of either window; the portly coach.
man, too, and the bunch of rapiered footmen hanging on behind, fat with
scrapings of venison and turtle, must not be forgotten. Let no profane spectator
imagine ...
3
The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses
By contrast rapiered Stephen, weaponed with logic on his Aristotelian rock (Kinch
, the knife-blade), continually sticks his neck out to snatch bitingly at the
statements of the others, taking on allcomers at once. It is two o'clock. Stephen is
in the ...
4
The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher with an Introduction by ...
Our authors' age was more masculine, but corruption had begun to enervate the
higher ranks, to degrade gallant men into gallants, knights into rapiered fops,
barons into powdered beaux. Luckily the Rebellion occurred, to reconvert these ...
... sits among beru filed and rapiered dandies and beauties with patches on their
cheeks, hears all their delicious scandals, and the good things of the wits; and
whether intentionally or unintentionally — perhaps all the better and completer
that ...
Others would have [had] boots and rapiers taken away, but nothing was done.' A
rapiered legislature must have looked formidable ; but deadly weapons were
neither used nor drawn this session, — an example for some of the legislators of
...
Fifty years earlier, the scarlet-coated, rapiered figures of Vassall, Oliver, and
Brattle, creaked up and down there on red-heeled shoes, lifting the ceremonious
three-cornered hat and offering the fugacious hospitalities of the snuff- box. They
are ...
He could steal with deft dexterity, The honey-bag from the rapiered bee, Quicker
than you can say to me, Honorificabilitudinity l He could steal the lash from the
eye of a star, Or the sparkle out of the heart of a spar; He could steal the fame
from ...
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Selected Short Stories: Easyread Comfort Edition
By night, in his three-story- high chambre garnier in the old French Quarter he
was again the last male descendant of the Charles family, that noble house that
had lorded it in France, and had pushed its way smiling, rapiered, and courtly into
...
10
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition
... rapiered and noble master; I eut grammarians' throats on courtiers' corpses.
Those were, I freely grant, some of my crimes: I took and tore down the Bastille of
poetry. And I went further: broke the iron chains Fettering the term "people"; ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAPIERED»
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rapiered is used in the context of the following news items.
How Albert Einstein engaged with India & why some Indian …
Rapiered by the Einstein equations, Space and Time are merged into — in what is the closest analogy — a giant, stretched tarpaulin called spacetime that is ... «Economic Times, Mar 15»
Khushwant Singh: Man with matchless malice
Two servings of booze and a nonnegotiable good-bye at 8 pm. He'll be up at 5 am for his rapiered writing. So the angels had also watch out for their haloes. «Times of India, Mar 14»
