10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNEAKISHNESS»
Discover the use of
sneakishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sneakishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction
They have such different "standards of civilization," he wrote, and drunkenness
did not "seem to be regarded as a serious disgrace. Slavery was here not so long
ago." Cook even complained about the "the sneakishness" and "barbarism of the
...
Edward J. Blum, W. Scott Poole, 2005
One accused the other of sneakishness in desiring to know the contents of a
letter which one witness had sent to another. The other resented the suggestion,
and said, “I won't be called a sneak by such a coward as you.” In reply to another
...
3
Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences
It is also evident in stealth, sneakishness, cowardice and the lack of some of the
better qualities. These well-known facts need only to be mentioned. The degree
to which they are being overcome will constitute an interesting phase of his ...
4
Twelve tales: with a headpiece, a tailpiece, and an ...
Get decently drunk before the eyes of the world, and confess your sneakishness.
It 's money-grubbing, not virtue, that 's kept you straight so long. If you 've any
conscience left, boy, go home and repent of it. Go home and get drunk ; and let
all ...
... would have induced him to lay himself open to an accusation of sneakishness,
such as would, doubtless, be cast at him. In the course of his career, he had
assisted at several elopements—his memory went lovingly back over them in turn
, ...
Marie Flora B. Leighton, 1888
6
Pennsylvania School Journal
And sneakishness is a vice more hard to eradicate than obduracy. So far from
curing an ill-conditioned boy of rude and vulgar ways, it is calculated rather to
render inveterate in him a distaste for study, and a stolid hatred of our craft. Let us
be ...
7
In her majesty's keeping
... else for all the world. Sneakishness is the corollary of WANTED, A BUTTRESS.
237.
Lewis Strange Wingfield (hon.), 1880
8
The Comedy and Tragedy of the Second Empire: Paris Society ...
1' I recall, without in any way endorsing, a quaint reason seriously advanced for
the French defeats: “ Don't blame your late Emperor because the Germans
thrashed you; the cause lies far deeper: it is due to the sneakishness of your male
...
9
Tennyson Poet, Philosopher, Idealist
He knew the vulgarity of wealth, the offensive obtrusive- ness of the poor, the
indifference of the well-born, the sneakishness of the low-born ; and chilled,
indignant, repelled, he fled from the vulgarity and impurity and corruption of
modern ...
But mingled with this disagreeable shaking of my selftrustwasfuryand contemptfor
the pettinessof the armysystem, for the thirdform sneakishness ofthe officer who
hadreported me, and for the silly, pettifogging, exasperating punishment.
