10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROLLICKY»
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rollicky in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rollicky and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blow the Candle Out (c)
... peach-orchard crazy, pruney, pussy simple, red-eyed, rollicky, satchel-crazy,
twat-foolish, or twitchet-struck. ["Rollicky" refers to the testicles or bollocks, as in
the bawdy song "Bollocky Bill the Sailor."] 93 I asked an old gentleman at Galena,
...
Do you wake up with a wiggle? Do you wiggle out of bed? For energetic toddlers (are there any who aren't?), here's a book that invites them to wiggle along with the story.
3
Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
"It was a rollicky sort of a place," he said. It would soon get a whole lot rollickier.
10 Perhaps understandably, documentary records for this period of Tascosa's
history are sparse, but there is plenty of evidence to suggest it wasn't so much ...
4
Holiday Programs for Boys and Girls
All: Oh, every branch holds a bear or two when the rollicky storm is through. Girls:
They cling to the boughs where they fell last night out in the pine-tree zoo. Boys :
They sprawl on the branches or hold on tight (a very hard thing to do). All : And ...
Aileen Lucia Fisher, 1986
He ignored his bruised knuckles and plucked theguitar strings asif he held a
grudge against them,and then began to sing the first song that came into his mind
—one thatstarted ina rollicky fashion. Mencame stragglingup fromthe bunkhouse
...
6
Alkali Trails, Or, Social and Economic Movements of the ...
... and almost south of Crosby County, was a young city with almost 5,000 people,
cosmopolitan airs, scores of saloons, rollicky dance halls, and a street railroad.
Colorado City was the trading center for the cattle country for a hundred miles to ...
William Curry Holden, 1998
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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Edition
All women are supposed to be like timid, startled fawns, blushing and casting
down their gentle eyes when looked at and running away when spoken to; while
we man are supposed to be a bold and rollicky lot, and the poor dear little women
...
... dead-line and cracked champagne-bottles on the wheels in front of the Cliff
House, it's because automobiles weren't invented and Cliff House wasn't built.
Begging your pardon, dad—I'll bet you were a pretty rollicky young blade,
yourself.
9
The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology
There is always a face at the window, always interrogation from landscape:
sometimes a mule deer or that rollicky porcupine perfectly aware that he is God's
mistake. He is glad to be excused from the rocket science and petting, not hunted
, ...
Mary Rose O'Reilley, 2006
At that, for the first time in our acquaintance, she laughed; such a delicious,
rollicky little laugh that I felt ready, at the sound, to face a dozen fathers and they
all old Kings. As we came chugging up to the house, several faces appeared in
the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROLLICKY»
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rollicky is used in the context of the following news items.
The Book Report: Redefining "Her Texas"
... reason for the ebullience of life and rollicky carelessness on the frontiers of the West was the lack—temporary—of women.” The late Lou Halsell Rodenberger, ... «The Texas Observer, Jul 15»
NEW BILL WATTERSON ART: 'Calvin and Hobbes' creator on why …
In that regard, I always think of “Popeye” and “Barney Google” as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost. So older comics ... «Washington Post, Nov 14»
"Y" So Creative? A Very Adjective-y Letter
In the 16th cent. arose choky, drowsy, slippy, sticky; later we find blowy, clingy, floaty, quavery, rollicky." So it's a longtime thing. I'm convinced that we're in the ... «Slate Magazine, Oct 14»
'The Immigrant' is uneven but often extraordinary
This rollicky, carefree spirit also falls for Ewa, which places him in direct romantic opposition, apparently not for the first time, with Bruno. Orlando knows how to ... «Christian Science Monitor, May 14»
Future in balance for little regarded Edisto River
... it's been a small-boaters' paradise, the hole where kids learn to swim, the rollicky float where teens tubed in the summer, the marsh where hunting is keenest, ... «Charleston Post Courier, Feb 14»
Matt Smith: 'David's doctor is swashbuckling, mine's more of a weirdo!'
I think it's just fun and rollicky and people romping around. There's the odd snog here and there, but that's it. I'm sorry, but with the greatest respect I categorically ... «What's On TV, Nov 13»
First Look At Rosemarie DeWitt & Ellen Page In Lynn Shelton's …
But as the helmer tells EW, her latest "Touchy Feely" marks a bit of a change. ”It doesn't have this rollicky, bantering feel that my last couple films have had,” she ... «Indie Wire, Dec 12»
Lynn Shelton gets 'Touchy Feely' -- EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK
Shelton spoke exclusively with EW about the project, which she says goes into more dramatic territory that her previous projects. ”It doesn't have this rollicky, ... «Entertainment Weekly, Dec 12»
Sinead O'Connor at the El Rey Theater, Feb. 20, 2012
For some reason, her accompaniment last night sounded pedestrian; there was that wonky, plodding bass at every song, and rollicky piano playing, the flute we ... «OC Weekly, Feb 12»
Mongolian city of Kangbashi ripe for one million inhabitants sits …
Isn't this the precursor that so often precedes many a downfall of rollicky civilizations? Civilizations seduced by their own grandeur, stasis, might and impending ... «scallywagandvagabond, May 11»
