10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCURVINESS»
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scurviness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Spelling and thinking combined, or, The spelling book made a ...
113 Scurviness : cansrous for cancerous ; scroflotis for scrofulous; saw for sore;
saumess for soreness; widow for whitlow ; medcine for medicine ; mtdisnal for
medicinal ; surjry for surgery. KEEP TOUR TEETH SOUND. Censurable : natomy
for ...
Josiah Freeman Bumstead, 1841
The people of Mattani are renowned for their distrust of strangers, and none more
so than their king – who is, as you so rightly observed, Master Flip, a knave of the
most abject scurviness. I can only imagine he instructed his guard to confine ...
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Gospel truth demonstrated, in a collection of doctrinal ...
So he cleanses away the inward brokenness, crookedness, scurviness,
scabbedness, blindness, deformities, lameness, and blemishes, that all the
believers in the light, which is the life in Christ, might offer their spiritual sacrifices
unto God.
4
New Monthly Belle Assemblée
He was a man of a middle age, swarthy, with marked features, and wearing, at
the period I speak of,--— namely, January, 183l,-a “ shocking bad but," whose
scurviness was rendered more prominent by a bit of gaudy lace, a well-worn
claret ...
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The pharmaceutical journal and transactions
(Macclesfield). — The bark is derived from Quillaia saponaria, a plant of the
Natural Order Rosacea. It has been used in some parts of America as a substitute
for soap, and in this country as a detergent in scurviness and baldness of the
head.
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
It is, in truth, a sad thing to think, that the scurviness of our Scottish aristocrats will
not allow a teacher of youth any convenient standing-room within the bounds of
his own profession, but he must even be content to eke out his scanty income, ...
William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1844
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Get Rid of the Blues: Everything You Always Wanted to Know ...
This reduplication of the same is absolutely irrational, in whatever way it be
considered; and incompleteness and pluralism, in spite of their aesthetic
scurviness, are intellectually to be preferred.'' “1 Whitehead's God avoids the
criticism, in part ...
... to look well to the rough bark of these trees, especially spring and fall, and
examine carefully with a knife, and if they find symptoms of disease there, or any
unnatural rustiness or scurviness or dead blotches, to cleanse them well with a
knife, ...
American Pomological Society, 1848
9
The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction, ...
This rule applies to derivatives, but not to compounds: thus, we write merciful,
and mercy-seat; penniless, and pennyworth; scurviness, and scurvy-grass; &c.
But ladyship and goodyship, being unlike secretarisltip and suretyship ;
handicraft ...
Goold Brown, Samuel U. Berrian, 1851
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Chambers Pocket Dictionary
[From hurry-scurry, reduplication of hurry] scurvy n a disease marked by bleeding
under the skin and sponginess of the gums, caused by lack of vitamin C. — adj -
ier, -iest vile; contemptible. — n scurviness. [OE scurf] scut n a short tail, esp. of a
...
Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton, 1992
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCURVINESS»
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The piecemeal changes announced by railway minister Pawan Bansal in the Railway Budget are symptomatic of the scurviness with which successive ... «Livemint, Feb 13»
