10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPOONILY»
Discover the use of
spoonily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spoonily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tilbury Nogo: or, Passages in the life of an unsuccessful man
Little did I think how spoonily I had managed my good fortune. I was quite
satisfied with my success ; and did not disturb myself with the reflection that had
my friend Jack, or almost any other man at the table, been indulged with such a
run of ...
George John Whyte-Melville, 1854
2
The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.
Little did I think how spoonily I had managed my good fortune. I was quite
satisfied with my success, and did not disturb myself with the reflection that had
my friend Jack, or almost any other man at the table, been indulged with such a
run of ...
3
Plays of the 19th and 20th Centuries
But as I was a sayin' when I was interrupted by they critturs o' crows, if you've no
objection, Madge (spoonily), 1 should loik to keep company along o' you. Madge
(contemptuously). Why, Dandy, you be daft. A •carecrow, as only gets his living ...
Mr. Hannay, in an eloquent article that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for
November, 1857, touches upon this popular mistake, and corrects it. He writes :“
Inveterately satirical as Jerrold is, he is even ' spoonily' tender at the same time,
and it ...
Douglas William Jerrold, William Blanchard Jerrold
5
Orthodox London: or, Phases of religious life in the Church ...
... fields lie incongruously among streets, while here and there a veritable old
farmhouse crops up, and Cockney lovers were gazing spoonily into the cabbage-
gardens as I sped through the mud and snow on Septuagesima Sunday to
church.
Charles Maurice Davies, 1874
Inveterately satirical as Jerrold is, he is even “spoonily ” tender at the same time;
and it lay deep in his character; for this wit and ban-viuanl, the merriest and
wittiest man of the company, would cry like a child, as the night drew on, and the
talk ...
7
The Comic History of England: With Reproductions of the 200 ...
The already corpulent monarch was stupidly and spoonily love-sick about this "
artful puss," as Catherine might have called her, and he used to leave scraps of
paper about the palace scribbled over with charades, conundrums, and
anagrams ...
Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, John Leech, 1894
8
Wolfern Chace, by one - who not unknown to fame, yet dares ...
This beatific condition did not, however, render him spoonily insensible to the
creature comforts of a well-chosen dinner or to the merits of the grand brown
sherry which the jolly old host decanted and put on with his own hands, and a
great ...
William Alfred Gibbs, 1880
9
Collection of Auction Catalogs on Japanese Art: Also ...
... almost square ; signed Koriusai / , 72 Minatogawa : Interior of a tea-house
looking out upon the river, — — ' with a youth seated leaning against the
balustrade, and a tea-house waitress standing by eyeing him spoonily ; medium
size, almost ...
Ernest Goodrich Stillman, 1898
10
Hardwicke's Science-gossip
Many fight lustily for the protection of their ova, and construct a nest for them ;
some of the cuttle-fishes have been observed to make love right "spoonily," to
exhibit rivalry, jealousy, and irascibility ; and even to display attachment to their ...
