10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRAGGIEST»
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scraggiest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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... mystification somewhere, if the scraggiest part of the neck of the world should
trouble itself about uch things.” I ask you, whether the passage which I have just
read can fairly bear the construction which my learned friend has put upon it ?
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1836
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
... these being mostly guillolined, Mahomet Robespierre did, with bouquet in
hand, and in new nankeen trowsers, in front of the Tuileries, pronounce the
scraggiest of prophetic discourses on the Etre Supreme, and set fire to much
emblematic ...
When this and the other sentimental youth or maiden falls into an ecstasy about
Salvator's pines, Ruskin is ready to demonstrate that they are the scraggiest and
most unnatural things imaginable, and that the artist might as well have used a ...
4
The French Revolution: The guillotine
See, accordingly, how after Decree passed, and what has been called * the
scraggiest Prophetic Dis- ' course ever uttered by man,' — Mahomet Robespierre,
in sky-blue coat and black breeches, frizzled and powdered to perfection, bearing
in ...
... short or tall, young or not-so-young . . . even if you own the scraggiest, puniest,
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gain a ...
The old sailor, ignorant of Arabic feminine names, thought " it a misnomer," for of
all his she-persecutors she was the leanest and scraggiest. Notwithstanding the
poetical notions which the readers of Oriental romance might associate with her ...
One begins soon to feel a pretty sanguinary wish that one could rip up this
wearisome monotony, and insert somewhere a street with the scraggiest name
any body can imagine. One prominent illustration of this practical tendency is
furnished ...
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The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the Sunbeam
... which hung by a piece of string from the longest and scraggiest arm of a very
old and leafless tree. All the rest of the party were assembled on the beach, and a
brisk trade was being done in corals, shells, and cocoa-nuts, paid for in tobacco,
...
Annie Brassey, Mary Anne Broome, 2010
9
Cellar Door: An Anthology of Stories, Poems and Essays by ...
Under the house was the scraggiest litter of kittens she'd ever seen. Five mewling
bundles, eyes clenched tight against the world. Ellie had waited all day for the
mother cat to return. She never did. Ellie fashioned a sling from the scarf she'd ...
10
The Antithesis of Yoga
There was a hoard of the scraggiest beggars, scrawny bodies covered in tatters,
hanging out in the sunny late afternoon on the quiet street. Little sleepy stalls sold
flowers, incense, coconuts. Through the open door they could hear music and ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCRAGGIEST»
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scraggiest is used in the context of the following news items.
Who Owns Papa's Land?
Whilst white Namibians play the Big Boss landowners, black Namibians are consigned into the scraggiest part of what was once their own patch of the world. «Swans, Jul 11»
