10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKRIMSHANKER»
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skrimshanker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
skrimshanker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Kipling, 1893. Prob. a back-formation from: scrimshanker; occ. skrimshanker . A
shirker: military (–1890). Tit-Bits, 26 April 1890, 'Besides the dread of being
considered a skrimshanker, a soldier dislikes the necessary restraints of a
hospital.
The Skrimshanker. “Indian Engineering,” of Calcutta, Incila, discourses
interestingly upon the skrimshanker, The skrimshanker is as— sumed to be a civil
engineer employed in railway construction and maintenance, but the portrait will
...
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Liberty Review: A Magazine of Politics, Economics, and Sociology
But it is neither one nor the other, but the only statesmanlike solution of the
problem. Every workhouse should have a lethal chamber. Sufficient evidence
should entitle any skrimshanker to the blessed relief of the eternal repose which
that ...
4
The Group Approach To Leadership-Testing
Examples—handling:— 1 the bloody-minded “sea-lawyer”, a focus of disruption
and trouble wherever he goes. 2 the skrimshanker trying to dodge an unpleasant
task. 3 the “cocky” regimental boxing champion who is throwing his weight about
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Harris, Henry, Professor Sir Henry Harris, 2013
5
Empire-building and Empire-builders: Twelve Studies
In his ability to keep up his own spirits and the spirits of the men, he easily
outshines his contemporary, the 'skrimshanker' Porkiss, who is 'demoralised with
fear' and in whom Revere shows no interest, destroying him with the words: 'Oh!
The ...
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Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military ...
Doctors looked on every man as a skrimshanker. Brutality in treatment of patients
when they were unwilling to undergo a particular cure. Men wounded and minus
an arm insisted on not being put on electric treatment. Was knocked down and ...
7
Rudyard Kipling Collection
Willit satisfy you if I own that Iama shirker, a skrimshanker, anda coward? CAPT.
M. It wil!not, because I'mtheonly man inthe world who can talkto youlike this
without being knockeddown. You mustn't take all thatI've said to heartinthis way.
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Under the Deodars, the Phantom 'Rickshaw, Wee Willie Winkie
'Keep back that young skrimshanker Por- kiss, sir, and let Revere make him sit up
.' So Bobby departed joyously to Simla Pahar with a tin box of gorgeous raiment. '
'Son of Wick — old Wick of Chota-Buldana? Ask him to dinner, dear,' said the ...
9
Medicine in the Twentieth Century
As doctors and patients testified, however, malingering was ubiquitous, and it
encouraged medical officers to suspect that every serviceman who reported sick
as being a 'skrimshanker.' As an anonymous diarist suffering severe dysentery in
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Roger Cooter, John V. Pickstone, 2000
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Pleasetosend me the skiv by return, for I sadly wantsome comfort. Skowbanker,
subs. (Australian). —A loafer ; a hangeron : also showbanker. Skower. See
Scoure. Skrimp (or Skru mp), verb, (provincial).—To steal apples. Skrimshanker,
subs ...
