10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRANNEL»
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various ...
They are sped; " And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs " Grate on their
scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; " The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,
125 " But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, " Rot inwardly, and foul ...
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The
Scrannel Pipe: A Book of Verse
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
They are sped; " And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs " Grate on their
scrannel pipes of wretched straw; " The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,
125 " But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, " Rot inwardly, and foul ...
John Milton, Henry John Todd,
1842
What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs
Grate on their scrannel pipes ' of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and
are not fed ; m But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, ...
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Sartor resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
... Jew's-harping and scrannel-piping there ; to which the fright- ' fullest species of
Magnetic Sleep soon supervened. And if I ' strove to shake this away, and
absolutely would not yield, ' there came a hitherto unfelt sensation, as of Delirium
Tre- ...
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The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
scrannel. 1907. scratch. to get something before all others ; Jmsisi ^tM •tttila *r» ?
$tsf5 11 2. A rude, eager straggle for something ; §to1 <3&<$1 I 3. Climbing on all
fours or clambering ...
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Augustan Poetic Diction
was Milton able to build a line having so particular a quality of contemptuous
sound as Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, where one word only
is onomatopoetic according to the ordinary way of reckoning? Except for Pipes ...
8
The History of Manchester: In Four Books
... [from scrag]— Scraggedness n.s. leanness — Scragnel adj. a word now lost,
but the original of the next — Scrannel adj. lean or narrow, as in Milton, Their
flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. [vile, worthless,
perhaps ...
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
a b/f from scrannel. scrannel; scranny. See SCRAWNY. scrap. See SCAMBLE,
para 4. scrape.See SCAMBLE, para4. scratch,v(whence scratcher and scratching
), hence n (whence scratchy);—grate, to scrape harshly,to rub vigorously, whence
...
It carries on the idea in “lean,” implying that the sound of the pipes is as poor in
tone as the matter of the songs is “lean.” The Imperial Dictionam/ quotes (without
reference) from Carlyle, “to twang harps for thee, and blow through scrannel
pipes ...
John Milton, A. W. Verity,
2013
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Our bet is on the lone Canadian (and youngest in the competition), Laura Newcombe, 11, of Toronto, who made it to the finals with "scrannel." Um, if that doesn't ... «Village Voice, Jun 10»