10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SESQUIPEDALITY»
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sesquipedality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Narrative Structure and Philosophical Debates in Tristram ...
Tristram uses geometrical terms to describe 'a little, squat, uncourtly figure of a
Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of
back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant
in ...
1. sesquialteral 2. sesquicentennial 3. sesqniduplicate 4. sesquipedalia 5.
sesquipedalian 6. sesquipedality 7. sesquipedalianism 8. sesquisulphide
SESQUI alteral (ses kwi al' ter al) adj. Having the ratio of lib to 1; IV* times as
great as the ...
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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy
IMAG-XNE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four
feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality
of belly, which might have done honor to a serjeant in the horse guards.
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Garner on Language and Writing
Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects. This collection of his essays shows both profound scholarship and sharp wit.
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Paradigms lost, reflections on literacy and its decline
The implication was unmistakable: there was no time when a short, sensible term
could not, virtuously and profitably, replace a big bad word. The use of idle and
ostentatious polysyllables even had a suitably gruesome name: sesquipedality, ...
The implication was unmistakable: there was no time when a short, sensible term
could not, virtuously and profitably, replace a big bad word. The use of idle and
ostentatious polysyllables even had a suitably gruesome name: sesquipedality, ...
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The Life And Opinions Of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman
I'X. IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about
four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a
sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honor to' a sergeant in the horse-
guards.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. [By J. ...
... squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor slop, of about four feet and a half
perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which
might have done honour to a- serjeant in the horseguatds._ Let us laugh it out,
and begin a ...
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Memoirs of the life and family of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence ...
IX, -IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Dr. Slop, of about four
feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality
of belly, which might have done honour to a serjeant -in the horse-guards.
Slop is here described by Sterne in the following words — ' Imagine to yourself a
little, squat, uncourtly figure of a Dr. Slop, about four feet and a half perpendicular
height, with a breadth of back and a sesquipedality of belly which might have ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, Thomas Carlyle,
1856
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