10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMOUSER»
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smouser in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
smouser and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
What this smouser had already done was more than enough, Zenzele thought.
But Mpumelelo was very happy and grabbed the can he offered. 'You will be sick
if you eat and drink too much,' Zenzele warned her sister. But she took no notice.
2
Reminiscences of a frontier armed & mounted police officer ...
Simply because the wool, &c., which the quondam smouser bought up in . the
colony at an exorbitant figure, and shipped to England, has scarcely realised the
colonial rate. The smouser, when too late, discovers that he has been working at
...
Edward Wilson (sub-inspector.), 1866
3
Oral-Style South African Short Story in English: A. W. ...
A young girl of the neighbourhood mysteriously disappears, and her family,
having exhausted every other method, resolves to use the reputed divining
powers of an itinerant Greek "smouser." The girl's two burly brothers chance upon
him after ...
4
History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania: Including Its ...
963 Valen. , 724 Wm. & Mary, 963 Wm., 442, 453, 455, 46 962 SMITHGALL
David, 451 Jacob & Sarah, 1195 Margt. /Lundy, 1195 SMITHERS John, 439
SMITHKRANTZ John, 644 SMOUSER SMOUSER continue: Adam, 436 SMYSER
Daniel ...
John Franklin Meginness, 1892
5
Africana Short Stories: An Anthology from South Africa's Past
only, till that which they saw was less the mean body of the smouser than the
vehicle of the soul within. "Piet was a youth as solid in mind as in body, and ere
the scene grasped him against his will he says he saw with an angry impatience
the ...
6
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
There was alarm, and chairs overturned, and screaming of women, and it was
long before they could get the smouser to VOL. CLXXVII.—NO. MLXXlll. his feet
and bring him to speech. And then he would not go a foot away from them. “'It
came ...
There was alarm, and chairs overturned, and screaming of wemen, and it was
long before they could get the smouser t0 VOL. CLXXVIL—NO. MLXXIII. 371 his
feet and bring him to speech. And then he would not go a foot away from them.
8
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Also Smouser: 1887 (Pettman); smousing, itinerant trading, from mid18705, is
another S. African coll. OED; Pettman. smous(e), v. Corresponding to prec., 2.
Pettman. —2. Hence, to pet, to flirt: 'There are two of them smousing in that room',
...
9
Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute
They have no money, neither do they want any; their surplus sheep, oxen, ivory,
and ostrich feathers buy everything the smouser has to sell; and the latter would
rather have these products, because he will sell them at the first town to a profit, ...
Royal Colonial Institute, 1870
62 Baron PANSMOWZER: "smouser" or "smouse: a Jew," "to smouse: to feast" (
OED). There may well be an allusion to the baron's greediness. 70 the Horns and
the Clarions: the Bath orchestra of wind instruments performed during the public
...
Christopher Anstey, Annick Cossic, 2010
