10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STUCK-UPNESS»
Discover the use of
stuck-upness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stuck-upness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Surviving Bullies Workbook: Skills to Help Protect You from ...
For example, you could say, “Sometimes people confuse my quietness with 'stuck
-upness,' which is very frustrating to me because I know I am not very good at X (
something you are not good at)”. Although this sounds hard to do, if you practice
...
Dickon Pownall-Gray, 2006
2
The Structure of Human Personality (Psychology Revivals)
Common-sense psychology unhesitatingly describes and explains behaviour in
terms of traits, such as persistence, suggestibility, courage, punctuality, absent-
mindedness, stage-struckness, “being one for the girls”, stuck-upness, and ...
3
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet: A Novel
“So you'reperfect. And haveno faults,” I said sarcastically. “Except for that darn
short temper, which goes with the stuck-upness and pride. So at least youhavea
matching set.” “I neversaid anythinglikethat. Forsomeone who prefersopenness
to ...
Bernie Su, Kate Rorick, 2014
4
The Ruskin Polygon: Essays on the Imagination of John Ruskin
I believe you were quite wrong, — it was all your stuck-upness and too fineness.
— I might have been ever so happy over there with Marie — instead of fighting
my gardeners here — annually.] — Send me a line now & then still, please, ...
John Dixon Hunt, Faith M. Holland, 1982
5
Glengarry School Days: A Story of Early Days in Glengarry
... dream of a towel, nor dare to be guilty of such a piece of "stuck-upness"—and
the shirt would get wrong side out, or would bundle round the neck, or would
cling to the wet shoulders till they had to get on their knees almost to squirm into it
.
... and she ought to be the darling of the whole world, for she's the best and
sweetest and — but, bless me ! how I run on ! You see it's her simplicity and un-
stuck-upness that takes us all. We're not fine people — not the company she's
used to ...
Laurence William M. Lockhart, 1869
7
'These Eighty Years': Or, The Story of an Unfinished Life
... had known nothing of the aristocracy before I embarked in these social
movements, and that I had been agreeably surprised to find how free, for the
most part, they were from starch and “stuck-upness,” which I supposed largely
resulted from ...
"I am having no such thing," Zachary said with every inch of stuck-upness in his
being. His knees disagreed violently, but as long as he kept a grip on the sill that
infuriating half-pint teenager didn't have to know that his joints were mutinying.
Being little burdened with what the plain-spoken maid called stuck-upness, I stole
down-stairs to ask Martha for another supply. The gas was burning brightly on the
stair and in the assage below, but no Martha was to be seen; the 001' which ...
10
Roget's Thesaurus of Phrases
... sweet nothings sweet tooth craving for sweets, fondness for sweets swelled
head big head, cockiness, immodesty, large hat size, stuck-upness, swelled-
headedness swim bladder air bladder swimming hole pond, water hole, watering
hole, ...
