10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROUGH AS SACKS»
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Freeing. the. Verse. Free verse describes lines of poetry written without regular
beat and rhyme. One of the first great poets to use the form was the American
Walt Whitman. Free verse does not ignore the traditional rules of poetry, but the
poets ...
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Victorians in the Mountains: Sinking the Sublime
A housemaid would not wear them, Shapeless, brown and rough as sacks, Thick!
And yet you often tear them With that axe! Worst of all, unblacked, unshiny - 19
After spending several holidays in the Alps, Gertrude Bell went on eventually to ...
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A Life of J.C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
... trees, of a distant strip of the harbour and in the foreground the rusty roofs of
the factories in Stanley Street and the backs of neighbouring houses - all rough
as sacks. During their first weeks in Auckland it rained, at times with a 'hell-like ...
The Australian 'rough as bags' has become 'rough as sacks.' Bullswool, the
Australian name for the fibre of the stringy- bark tree, expresses scorn or
contempt (cf. U.S. bulldust; indeed, bullswool itself may have originated
independently in ...
Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy,
1943
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English transported: essays on Australasian English
The Australian asseverations dinkum, fair dinkum, 'honest, straight', have
produced in New Zealand the meaningless variant feather dinks. The Australian
rough as bags has become rough as sacks. Bullswool, the Australian name for
the fibre ...
William Stanley Ramson,
1970
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Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
In the words of Ibn Ezra, they protested not against those which are as "fine as
silk" but those which are as "rough as sacks."' A radical departure from. 'Cf. Hag.
15a. & Erub. 13b Brakh. 19a., Ed. v. 6-7. 'B. M. 85-6. *Shabb. 88a; Laz. op. (At. Ap
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H. T. III. Ap. 23b. aJ. Brakh. v. 9; Vi. 10; Shabb. 67b. which are as “rough as sacks.
”' A radical departure from 230 CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN
RABBIS.
Central Conference of American Rabbis,
1911
He tried the ignition again and the car started, the engine rough as sacks. All
caution, Drew put his head out of his window and looked back. Then he pulled
out, into the path of a taxi. Above the rubber scream and the hooting, I thought I
could ...
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Punch Library of Humour
A housemaid would not wear them, Shapeless, brown and rough as sacks, Thick
! And yet you often tear them With that axe ! Worst of all, unblacked, unshiny —
Greet them with derisive hoots — Clumsy, huge ! For feet so tiny ! Oh, those boots
...
Sir John Alexander Hammerton,
1907
A housemaid would not wear them, Shapeless, brown and rough as sacks, Thick
! And yet vou often tear them With that axe ! Worst of all, unblacked, unshiny —
Greet them with derisive hoots — Clumsy, huge ! For feet so tiny ! Oh, those boots
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