10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STODGER»
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The point is that the annual income of a certain ten-yearold newsboy, by name of
Stodger McClintock, was preeminently, magnificently insufficient to provide any of
those commodities. As a consequence of which, Stodger was cold. As another ...
"Let go what? Where f" Stodger dashed forward. Clank — splash. Minnie Jimps
turned her sharp nose to the stream, and once more we rode in safety, though so
close to the vessel astern that our dingey touched her, until hauled up alongside.
Poet Stodger. The gloomy Stodger at all writers frowning, Is chiefly hard on
Tennyson and Browning ; But he writes poems, and each wretched one Avenges,
well, Browning and Tennyson. Would you wound Stodger? thup, you'll gain your
...
George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates,
1867
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The Western Law Journal
everybody that his late crony, John Stodger, had just been sent to state prison as
a chicken thief, when nothing of the sort had ever occurred, the law would rightly
presume his story a libel, impelled by personal malice, and deal with him ...
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Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
THE gloomy Stodger at all writers frowning, Is chiefly hard on Tennyson and
Browning; But he writes poems, and each wretched one Avenges, well, Browning
and Tennyson. Would you wound Stodger? thus, you'll gain your endsPraise ...
I knew when Stodger unhesitatingly threw himself into the thick of the fray. Good
old Stodger! And there we fought, silently, furiously, in the restricted space of the
bath room, enveloped in a darkness that one could almost feel. Again and again I
...
Charles Edmonds Walk,
2012
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Cf. stodging. stodger. A gormandiser: s. or coll.: late C.19—20. Cf. stodge, n, 1.—
2. A dull and/or 5piritless person: coll.: from not later than 1904. (OED Sup.)
Whence stodgery, the behaviour, or an action, characteristic of such a person:
coll.
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Douglas Haig: Diaries & Letters 1861 _ 1914
For some reason he was known as 'Stodger'. 'Old Stodger' appears again in
Chapter 6. After serving in Rhodesia, where he won his DSO, he was given
command of a regiment of Australian Light Horse in South Africa, but chose that
moment ...
Eespecting the stores, Mr. Stodger informed us we must apply to the agent, Mr.
Batseye. " Beg pardon, gents," said Mr. Stodger ; " if you want a prize crew, I can
pick you out five smart hands, which I know they're up to every " "We don't mean
to ...
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
6. adj. Crammed 5. The commonest kind of marble. Suppl. (June 4, 1898). Cf.
stodger, 4. ful , stuffed ; filled to repletion. Not.l Lei.l Ah nivver see the choo'ch so
stodge. Ah'm quoite stodge. Ah cain't ate na moor. War. 37111»: Mb. Post (June
11.
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STODGER»
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ESTREIA–Em “Vício Inerente”, fracasso das utopias dos anos 1960 …
... onde pessoas com problemas são “curadas” – como por exemplo, o ator Burke Stodger (Jack Kelly), ex-comunista que se torna um reacionário orgulhoso. «Reuters Brasil, Mar 15»
'Inherent Vice' review: Joaquin Phoenix is a stoned hippie with huge …
The names -- Bigfoot Bjornsen and Coy Harlingen and Sancho Smilax and Petunia Leeway and Ensenada Slim and Dr. Buddy Tubeside and Burke Stodger ... «OregonLive.com, Jan 15»
Old-school Brad Haddin is in a class of his own
It's hard to shake the stodger tag once it's been smeared across your forehead. I think it's the first time in a long time that I'm really capable of contributing heavily ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 14»