10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STUMPIEST»
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stumpiest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stumpiest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal
A respectable quadruped was Duke, who spent the greater part of his days
grumbling in a remarkably small green kennel in the court, and whom I consider
as the dog of the most imperturbable demeanour and the stumpiest tail I ever saw
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Stray Feathers. a Journal of Ornithology for India and Its ...
Lastly, what I take to be the true Triborkyncka has the shortest and stumpiest bill
of all, and in summer plumage is darker and more rufous, and in winter plumage
greyer, and duskier than any of the others. I have a single specimen of this bird ...
... jasmines and multiflora roses that once draped the walls and latticed the
portico ; all the trees were mutilated into the stumpiest, most unsightly
roundheads ; the beautiful green lawn, which had sloped away from the house
for several acres, ...
Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, 1847
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The New monthly belle assemblée
... jasmines, and multiflora roses that once draped the walls and latticed the
portico : all the trees were mutilated into the stumpiest, most unsightly
roundheads : the beautiful green lawn, which had sloped away from the house
for several acres, ...
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Junior School Dictionary
... either end of a cricket pitch stump verb 3 to baffle someone or leave them at a
loss: The last question stumped all the students. Word Family: stumpy adjective (
stumpier, stumpiest) short and thick stun verb 1 to knock someone unconscious: ...
A large barn, with shed and stables, and poultry-yard and all I Fields of grain, well
fenced and stumpiest, surrounded this happy dwelling: and a most inviting door-
yard, filled to profusion with shrubs and flowers, seemed to invite our entrance.
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Colour Oxford English Dictionary
•verb informal baffle. stumpy adjective (stumpier, stumpiest) short and thick; squat
. stun verb (stuns, stunning, stunned) 1 knock someone into a dazed or
unconscious state. 2 greatly astonish or shock someone. stung past and past
participle of ...
Oxford Dictionaries,, 2011
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E. W. Hornung 22 Mystery- Mr. Justice Raffles Further ...
Butnow they were skirting one ofthe longest and stumpiest stone walls in feudal
England, and all ofa sudden itparted in twin turrets joinedbytriple gates.
Overthecentral arch heraldicmonsters pawed thestars; underneathan arc lamp
hung ...
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Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives
"I do not believe anyone is stealing logs off your land," he was answered, "but I
think you are getting the stumpiest piece of land in the township." This was as
much as to say that taking advantage of a speculator did not come under the
head of ...
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Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis: with special reference to ...
L. enriettii in culture at about 22°C still continues to divide as an apparent
amastigote for some two days before it starts to grow even the stumpiest of visible
flagella. Most of the others, particularly L. aethiopica with which we are dealing, ...
CIBA Foundation Symposium, 2009
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STUMPIEST»
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stumpiest is used in the context of the following news items.
Home plea for dog scared to go out
... her (Battersea Dogs and Cats Home/PA). For man's best friend, the lure of the great outdoors can send even the stumpiest tail wagging in frenzied excitement. «Belfast Telegraph, Sep 14»
Extreme minimalism in MV's two-wheeled Dragster
For the Dragster features bikedom's stumpiest rear subframe, allowing the new model to trick the eye into thinking it has a stretched-out look synonymous with ... «Stuff.co.nz, Aug 14»
Eva Longoria shows off her shapely legs in skin-tight skinny jeans
Click to rate. Atticus, London, United Kingdom, 2 years ago. Stumpiest legs in the business. 38. 18. Click to rate. Jah Live, London, 2 years ago. No Baby as yet. «Daily Mail, Jan 13»
Hammer-toothed skink SMASH!
Some lineages in Tiliqua have gone further, with additional phalangeal reductions being present in manual digits III and V, and in pedal digits II-V. The stumpiest ... «Scientific American, Nov 12»
The mixed bag of Obama's campaign song playlist
Aretha Franklin's “The Weight” and Booker T. & the M.G.'s' “Green Onions” are powerful enough to put an exclamation point on the stumpiest stump speech. «Washington Post, Feb 12»
