10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCROYLE»
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scroyle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
scroyle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness
“Captain Damn Scroyle. If Captain Scroyle told the estimable director of
Enforcement Division that he was in the employ of the United Mining Companies,
either in the person of Cleatus Fane or through some other agency, he was”—
Hashi ...
Stephen R. Donaldson, 2009
Jack gave his uncle as much information as he had and finished by handing him
Rob Scroyle's business card. “He's the guy in charge?” Aggie asked. Jack
nodded yes. “Him I want to meet.” Both men sat silently while Aggie thought
about what ...
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A Little Sister of Destiny
Scroyle is Elizabethan, of course, ' rare old Ben Jonson's ' pet word, I think — oh,
he was the boy for invective ! — and it can't be translated. I do hope you won't be
a scroyle, Sally. They laugh at you if you scatter your powder, and they guy your ...
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Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
MIG, SCROYLE, AND MASTER HERMAS. Three expert practitioners in the burial
arts, they teach Petrefax about the craft by telling him stories around a campfire.
DESTRUCTION. Dream's prodigal brother is featured in Scroyle's tale, in the ...
Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette, 2008
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Common Blunders Made in Speaking and Writing
The lexicographers have been condemned for swelling their pages with obsolete
words like scroyle, (a word which must be known if we wish to read Shakespeare
) and in the following manner this practice has been ridiculed — ' Sib : You ...
Charles William Smith (of-?), 1869
The lexicographers have been condemned for swelling their pages with obsolete
words like scroyle, (a word which must be known if we wish to read Shakespeare
) and in the following manner this practice has been ridiculed — ' Sir : You have ...
Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick, 1869
There's a publisher called Leonard Scroyle, who runs the paper called The
Backwash. Scroyle keeps Drummond in a garret over the office. It's somewhere in
Covent Garden. He gives him just enough indulgence to keep him quiet, and not
...
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The Southern review / Baltimore, Md
The lexicographers have been condemned for swelling their pages with obsolete
words like scroyle, (a word which must be known if we ,wish to read Shakespeare
) and in the following manner this practice has been ridiculed — 1 Sir : You ...
Ben Jonson Thomas Grant Steven Cain. Tucca. A better, profane rascal! I cry
thee mercy, my good scroyle, was't thou? Albius. No harm, captain. Tucca. She is
a Venus, a Vesta, a Melpomene! [To Chloe] 35 Come hither, Penelope. [Kisses
her.] ...
Ben Jonson, Thomas Grant Steven Cain, 1995
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Shakespeare's History of the Life and Death of King John
Taylor the Water-Poet speaks of a " hungry saucy scroyle." Cf. Jonson, Every Man
in his Humour, i. i. "hang 'em, scroyles ! " and Poetaster, iv. 3 : " I cry thee mercy,
my good scroyle, wast thou ? " 376. Industrious. Capell conjectured '* illustrious ...
William Shakespeare, William James Rolfe, 1921
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCROYLE»
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scroyle is used in the context of the following news items.
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"Why glossy? If it had a [matte] back I would buy in a second. That camera...@scroyle please come back to @htc. They're lost without u," tweeted Guido Conrad. «Tech Times, Mar 15»
An A to Z of Noah Webster's Finest Forgotten Words
"A vile, dissolute wretch" -- also known as a rampallion, a scroyle, a runnion, a pander, a cullion and (if they seem destined to a life of crime) a crack-rope. «Huffington Post, Oct 14»
Denis Kilcommons: Viking verbals ...
... and barnpots but there were glorious ones from the time of Shakespeare and Chaucer: sheep-biting knave, pottle-deep baggage, scroyle and gundygut. «Huddersfield Examiner, Nov 13»
Shakespeare Mimic Conjures Entire Play for Clever Novel: Review
... Renaissance poetry: “More dread have I of April rain and wind / Than of that flea-bit tench, that ape, that patch, / The jordan-faced and stinking Pictish scroyle.” ... «Bloomberg, Apr 11»
