10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLANTINDICULAR»
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The new gospel of peace, according to St. Benjamin
I. But when he was not before the world his walk was slantindicular. 8. And he
loved the people. 9. And Phernandiwud said within himself, Of a truth I love the
people ; but am I not one of the people ; yea verily, am I not number one of the ...
Richard Grant White,
1863
2
Nautical Magazine: A Magazine for Those Interested in Ships ...
... a “ kink " in it. The Yankee word “ slantindicular " is perhaps the best word to
apply to it. It implies no dishonesty, no impropriety, not even any questionable
conduct, but merely means slantindicular as compared with perpendicular. Now ...
3
The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects ...
The Yankee word " slantindicular " is perhaps the best word to apply to it. It
implies no dishonesty, no impropriety, not even any questionable conduct, but
merely means slantindicular as compared with perpendicular. Now,
slantindicularity has ...
4
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
3 [1900s-30s] to glance at. slantendicular adj. see SLANTINDICULAR adj. slanter
//. (also schlanter, schlenter, shlenter, si in tin (mainly Aus./SAfr.) 1 [late 19C] a
counterfeit coin. 2 [late 19C) a counterfeit object. 3 [late 19C+] a fraudulent trick; ...
5
Politics and the Muse: Studies in the Politics of Recent ...
Like history itself — all more or less bunk, as Henry Ford liked to say. . .the fatal
slantindicular futility of Fact! Appearances, my boy, appearances! Practical
politics consists in ignorin' facts! Opinion ultimately governs the world!" (86).
Having ...
6
Armenia: a year at Erzeroom, and on the frontiers of Russia, ...
... then up the trunk of the old gnarled juniper, or whatever it was, and at last upon
a slope, partaking much of that character which, in the States of the free and
independent slave-dealers over the water, is called slantindicular. Here we both
lay ...
Futurist art reminds William Marion Reedy, of the St. Louis Mirror, of nothing so
much as of the "slantindicular" effects of photographs taken of things on earth
from a soaring aeroplane. "Crazy quilts." he says, "are as nothing to some of
these ...
8
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
Why sciously from behind. A motive is not diagonally ? Why should it pursue
judicious and objective : an impulse a perpendicular line ? Why not a is blind and
subjective. And so is ' slantindicular line,' as Mr Slick rarity, when distinguished
into ...
9
My diary in America in the midst of war. Vol. 2
But when he was not before the world his walk was slantindicular." Here follows
half a chapter, accusing Phernandiwud of having swindled cue Marahorne out of
a large sum of money in connection with a trading speculation in California.
10
Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and ...
Suddenly our boat fell backward from her “slantindicular” position with a jerk, and
the mate immediately shouted, “Haul line, there!” . . . After what seemed a terribly
long chase, we found his speed slackening, and we redoubled our efforts.
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Stumbling on a Mystery in the Ransom Center
The anonymous author of The New Gospel ruthlessly ridiculed two-time New York mayor Fernando Wood, or “Phernandiwud” (whose walk was “slantindicular”), ... «The Alcalde, Sep 13»