10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RISIBILITIES»
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risibilities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
risibilities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science and the Fine Arts
To see those proud young gentlemen and young ladies, dressed in their silks,
jewellery, and prunella, from top to toe, take the jcrka, would often excite my
risibilities. The first jerk or so, you would see their fine bonnets, caps, and combs
fly ...
2
Americanisms: The English of the New World
... the plural form, are only heard in America. " I had hard work to keep down my
risibilities." (Rev. P. Cartwright, Autobiography, p. 142.) Risky, an adjective, made
from risk, and denoting what is 534 AMERICANISMS.
Maximilian Schele De Vere, 1872
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Collecting as Modernist Practice
[These poems] aroused the public risibilities at the time, and by so doing they
drew attention to the movement, and literary people began to be interested.”
What Johns identifies as “risibilities” signal a reception different from the more
caustic ...
4
The fun and fighting of the Rough riders
There was one interminable song with a chorus of “——de monk, de monk, de
monk, de monk—” ad [215. which always appealed strongly to the risibilities of
Captain Capron. It was about the only thing that aroused Capro'n's risibilities, for
to ...
5
The flowers of literature: consisting of selections from ...
LEGAL RISIBILITIES. SHERIDAN ON OATH. In the trial of the Earl of Thanet, Mr.
Fergusson, and others, for an attempt to rescue O'Connor, at Maidstone Assizes,
in 1799, the celebrated Richard Brinsley Sheridan appeared as a witness for the
...
6
Post-totalitarian Spanish Fiction
It is one thing to listen to a black troubadour picking a guitar on a street corner
and maybe drop a dime in his cap. But when you pay a dollar to see a picture,
your prejudices as well as your risibilities must be tickled. The Negro began long
ago ...
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The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, ...
... he has had a long hard way to go. It is one thing to listen to a black troubadour
picking a guitar on a street corner and maybe drop a dime in his cap. But when
you pay a dollar to see a picture, your prejudices as well as your risibilities must ...
Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard, 2002
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Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, ...
But when you pay a dollar to see a picture, your prejudices as well as your
risibilities must be tickled. The Negro began long ago tickling Americas risibilities.
In slavery he could hardly tickle anything else. It was fun listening to unorganized
...
Langston Hughes, Christopher C. De Santis, 1995
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Something Not Yet Ended--
RISIBILITIES. I think the response to this poem from my tall tenant upstairs was
the most satisfying of all, for I showed it to her next. She is alone on this sunny
morning, and she is always cheery to be alone. (I know it now as clear as
anything ...
Will be delighted to hear that we have been successful in exhuming him from his
rustic seclusion at the old "humsted," and that by our liberal offers he has been
induced to abandon his "otium," and accotionally minister to the risibilities of our ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RISIBILITIES»
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risibilities is used in the context of the following news items.
An Indian Bayadère that meets a sludgy end
Shown simultaneously on a giant laptop screen, he blogs and tweets about its racial archetypes and Bollywood plot, noting its numerous risibilities. As he does ... «Spectator.co.uk, Apr 15»
Illuminating insights in Klaus Zeller's second book
Two instances tickle the risibilities. During a lavish state dinner, a “far from exciting” speech sent Dr. Zeller to sleep. He confesses: “After that most embarrassing ... «Philippine Star, Feb 14»
