10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLIMPSY»
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slimpsy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
slimpsy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shoe and Leather Reporter
Counters Must Have Substance Ever have a stiff hat'get all slimpsy? Wrong kind
of felt in it. A derby should be comfortable and conform readily to the shape of the
head. Aside from that it should keep the shape given it at the factory. Same with ...
2
Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life
Can't do it with any such slimpsy water as we have here," said I. " And where do
they have any that is less slimpsy ,? " said Mother. " At the printing-offices," said I.
" They put a little ley in it. We have n't any at our office, but that 's the next thing ...
3
Michigan Reports: Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme ...
Plaintiff claims that railing was a railing placed on said bridge by you, said Edwin
A. Noret, and that the same was weak, flimsy, springy, and slimpsy, and not a
substantial railing as required by law, and that the same was only a trap, and that
...
Michigan. Supreme Court, 1917
Counters Must Have Substance Ever have a stiff hat get all slimpsy? \Vrong kind
of felt in it. A derby should be comfortable and conform readily to the shape of the
head. Aside from that it should keep the shape given it at the factory. Same with ...
5
The World's Chronicle: A History of the World To-day for the ...
this city a dozen or more men are busy every day printing and making up into
packages circulars and booklets printed with queer looking Chinese chamoters
on slimpsy Chinese paper. As fast as the packages are ready they are sent out
either ...
Eleanor Atkinson, Francis B. Atkinson, Lewis A. Convis, 1906
6
The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
IV (1914). slicker'n a smelt Very smoothly. “She steered her in slicker'n a smelt.”
slimpsy Shoddy, cheap, poorly made. “She was wearing that slimpsy dress.” slip
A term used mainly in New England for a long narrow church pew without doors,
...
7
Newspaper Days: An Autobiography
The buildings directly opposite were decayed wholesale houses of some
unimportant kind, where, in slimpsy rags of dresses or messy trousers and shirts,
girls and boys of fourteen to twenty or thereabout — tenement girls and tenement
boys ...
Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich, 1991
Can't do it with any such slimpsy water as we have here," said I. " And where do
they have any that is less slimpsy?" said Mother. " At printing-offices," said I. "
They put a little lye in it. We have n't any at our office, but that 's the next thing we '
re ...
9
Murder, She Wrote: A Palette for Murder
... me of someone.” “Just a silly impetuous purchase. Pretty slimpsy,” I said,
placing the painting back in the bag. “Slimpsy?” “An old Maine expression. Not
good quality. Well, see you.
Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain, 1996
continued Trimble. "I've been having sport, Proutt; having sport," he repeated
bitterly, relentlessly, "with a human being. I did n't know that he was really human
until afterwards. I thought he was just an imitation, a mannikin; a slimpsy,
bloodless ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLIMPSY»
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For instance, the structures of capillary and lymphatic vessels become slimpsy due to the effect of ultraviolet rays or aging, and this prevents nutrients from ... «WorldPressOnline, Jul 15»
