10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROOKISH»
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rookish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rookish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
How often, after exercising his ingenuity to the utmost in constructing somethin
which is not the likeness of anything in the air a ve, or the earth beneath, and
which he cted would strike the rookish heart with terror, is ie disgusted to find a
whole ...
2
Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
How often, after exercising his ingenuity to the utmost in constructing something
which is not the likeness of anything in the air above, or the earth beneath, and
which he expected would strike the rookish "heart with terror, is he disgusted to ...
William Chambers, Robert Chambers, 1862
3
Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. ...
How often, after exercising his ingenuity to the utmost in constructing something
which is not the likeness of anything in the air above, or the earth beneath, and
which he expected would strike the rookish heart with terror, is he disgusted to
find ...
4
The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
1599 : " Comes in a vapour like a rookish ryme." " Rooky wood," indeed, may
signify a rookery, the mood that abounds with rooks ; yet, merely to say of the
crow that he is flying to a wood inhabited by rooks, is to add little immediately
pertinent ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821
He 's buckish and bookish, Though some of his 'guns' may be called rather '
rookish ;' He '8 good at a joke, and none loves one better, So find him out quick,
and deliver this letter. If he 's not at home, then give it his daughter, And ' tell her I
...
John Holmes Agnew, Washington Irving, 1848
6
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
The pawns toss kings and queens, knights,bishops, and rookish nobles from the
board, to play out the game among themselves. Constitutions are woven in a
night, and are swept away like cobwebs by the morning broom. Rulers and ...
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew, 1849
7
Orations and Occasional Discourses
Bulls, whose roar once shook terribly the earth like one wide Bashan, now wail
plaintively and feebly as a famishing calf outside the gate of its paddock. The
pawns toss kings and queens, knights, bishops, and rookish nobles from the
board, ...
George Washington Bethune, 1850
8
The zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history
The rooks do not seem to be very badly off, but have quite lost their rookish habits
; they have deserted the snow-clad fields, feed in stable-yards with sparrows on
the oats found amongst horse- dung, frequent public roads for the same purpose
...
Circumstances prevent us from knowing the rookish system of nomenclature; but
we may suppose the wounded fellow to be called Ishmael. Caw number one
says, "Did you notice anything queer about Ishmael as he passed?" "Yes. Why,
he's ...
10
The history of Moses Wimble: his remarkable adventures, ...
It's a regular old rookish song. Such a queer old thing ! Do, Wimble ?" " And that
must be the last ?" said Mr. Weyday. " Oh, it's very short," I said. 'Tis Martinmat
time 'o the year, So hey for a mass for Saint Martin ! O, foggy days chilly and drear
, ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROOKISH»
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