10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPELLINGLY»
Discover the use of
spellingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spellingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Miscellanies: Memoirs of Mr. C. J. Yellowplush. Diary of C. ...
... called him " Sir," and did all the coarse work : and Jeames read the morning
paper to the ladies ; not spellingly and with hesitation, as many gentlemen do, but
easily and elegantly, speaking off the longest words without a moment's difficulty.
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1856
2
Mr. Brown's letters to a young man about town: with The ...
... he had in a young man who called him " Sir," and did all the coarse work ; and
Jeames read the morning paper to the ladies ; not spellingly and with hesitation,
as many gentlemen do, but easily and elegantly, speaking off the longest words ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1866
3
Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of ...
... delicate hand ; Miss Flouncy admired it very much, and of course he did not
defile it by menial service : he had in a young man who called him sir, and did all
the coarse work ; and Jeames read the morning paper to the ladies ; not
spellingly ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1871
4
The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. Burlesques
admired it very much, and of course he did not defile it by menial service : he had
in a young man who called him sir, and did all the coarse work ; and ]eames read
the morning paper to the ladies ; not spellingly and with hesitation, as many ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1869
5
The Spaniard; or, Relvindez and Elzora, a tragedy, and The ...
Ay, ay, But this is just the thing, — just it ! Ay, ay ! this hath let the swine out o' the
sack at once ! (Puts on her spectacles again, and reads spellingly.") That— the
ankle — bone of the right bulg-ed most hi-de-ous-ly, That was just enough now!
Simon Gray (of the War office.), 1839
6
Dreams of Love: Playing the Romantic Pianist
Connecting music making and writing, the piano becomes a place where “the
hands behave spellingly.”67 Sudnow explores further comparisons between the
typewriter's “speaking hand” and the “piano-knowing hand” in Talk's Body: A ...
7
Burlesques: Easyread Comfort Edition
... the coarse work; and Jeames read the morning paper to the ladies; not
spellingly and with hesitation, as many gentlemen do, but easily and elegantly,
speaking off the longest words without a moment's difficulty. He could speak
French, too, ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 2008
8
Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural ...
That's 1623, and, as we've seen, Digby's 1644 text also invokes spelling-as-
reading (he also uses the phrase "spellingly reade"), suggesting that this
meaning continues to circulate even after the tentative beginnings of what we
think of as ...
Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy Vickers, 1997
9
The Memoirs of Ernest A. Forssgren, Proust's Swedish Valet
The English [language] in its present state, is foisting such a hardship, needlessly
, on people who are, unfortunately forced to learn this, “spellingly unpractical”
language which has rightfully been called the “bastard language,” even by the ...
Ernest A. Forssgren, William C. Carter, 2006
10
Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: ...
Books for the blind became prosthetics for the eye, the pianist's hands behaved
spellingly, and the ear heard more than ever before with the musical/mechanical
impressions of the typewriter and the sounding out of the multi-media pages of ...
Dr Colette Colligan, Dr Margaret Linley, 2013
