10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRAGGIER»
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scraggier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
One Family's Journey Through Time 1845 - Present
... years or so ago but a fungus had wiped them all out. He said that about as long
as you could get them to live here now was twenty years. It took the tree a couple
of more years to completely die and it got scraggier and scraggier looking ...
2
Correspondent Colorings: Melville in the Marketplace
Among the dreary wastes of swamp that surrounded us . . . the boat was towed by
four wild, scraggy- looking horses, ridden by four scraggier-looking men. ( The
Crescent and the Cross, 44) On approaching, she turned out to be a small, ...
3
Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land: Or, The Crescent and the ...
The boat was towed by four wild, scraggy-looking horses, ridden by four wilder,
scraggier-looking men ; their naked feet were stuck in shovel stirrups, with the
sharp sides of which they scored their horses' flanks, after the fashion of crimped
...
4
The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
The boat was towed hy four wild, scraggy- looking horses, ridden by four wilder,
scraggier-looking men — their naked feet were stuck in shovel stirrups, with the
sharp sides of which they scored their horses' flanks, after the fashion of crimped
...
5
The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles ...
... thy wild sister, hag of scraggier shape, A feller fury thou ! for on thee wait
Intenser sufferings ; and a wider scene, With varied woes, thine ample mischief
fills. Barbarian thou, tho' civilized in name ! A curse, a shame, a most inhuman
vice Hid ...
6
Six Years in Bolivia: The Adventures of a Mining Engineer
It was no fat Southdown, but a Bolivian animal, than which none scraggier can
exist. My bargain with the Indian who sold me the sheep was that he should also
kill and skin it. This he proceeded to do on the spot. Maria, versed in the methods
...
Anselm Verener Lee Guise, 1997
7
African Identities: Pan-Africanisms and Black Identities
... power: Our erstwhile masters had left us a very unevenly cultivated land: the
centre was swollen with fruit and water sucked from the rest, while the outer parts
were progressively weaker and scraggier as one moved away from the centre. (p.
8
Coloured illustrations of British birds and their eggs
... species is jo exacdy die same ad thai of die tame jnoac, that die most practised
ear is suable to distinguish die one from die other ; it is nttered very frequently,
bat pardcalarij while the bird k oa tbe win?, or ob meeting with a scraggier.
Henry Leonard Meyer, 1849
... that of the warped logic of colonial modemity: “Our erstwhile masters had left us
a very unevenly cultivated land: the centre was swollen with fruit and water
sucked from the rest, while the outer parts were progressively weaker and
scraggier ...
10
Horace: A Poet for a New Age
... to Horace (Suetonius, Life): 'If I don't love you more than my own guts, may you
see your friend turn scraggier than a ninnium' (sadly, we don't understand the
word ninnium, which evidently indicates the very essence of scragginess).
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCRAGGIER»
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scraggier is used in the context of the following news items.
Cool walks and dogged friends
But two days after we saw Sandy, an even-scraggier coated mongrel of non-descript coloring joined us from among the trees, sniffed my girls, ignored me, then ... «Hong Kong Standard, Jun 15»
The Thrills and Chills of Hunting for Rare Oysters
Across most of the Continent, Ostrea edulis, the European oyster, is either farmed or has been supplanted by the larger, scraggier Pacific variety (European ... «Wall Street Journal, Dec 14»
Oyster Hunting in Denmark's Ljimford
The catch of the day includes both European oysters, which are round and flat, and the larger, scraggier Pacific variety. Brendan Austin for The Wall Street ... «Wall Street Journal, Dec 14»
Things Learned At: Pitchfork Paris
It's impossible to deny Pitchfork's influence, but the price is a certain, quixotic spirit that makes other, scraggier festivals such a treat. 0 Comments. Sort by. Top. «The Quietus, Nov 14»
Anna Pavord: Want the salads to keep coming and the flowers to …
The whole point is that you keep a fresh supply coming on and abandon the earlier, and by now scraggier crops. In a small garden, it's a waste of valuable space ... «The Independent, Jul 14»
Live review: Babyshambles/The Soft Pack/The Cheek
With new songs such as 'What Goes On', a scraggier cousin of Blur's 'Beetlebum', they finally seem set to go places. Woolly hats, oversized jumpers and hands ... «NME.com, Feb 10»
Chilcombe, my favourite garden
... their colour matching the delicate and elegant Crataegus orientalis in the mini meadow behind, where the scraggier sea buckthorn picks up the silver-leaved ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 09»
