10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEETOTALLY»
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teetotally in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
teetotally and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged
Teetotally. Entirely; totally. The meetin' houses on one side of the water, how
teetotally different they be ! — Sam Slick in England, ch. 12. Stranger, I 'm
powerful sorry, but we're teetotally out ; he took every bit of food with him. —
Carlton's New ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1859
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Hespeaks oftheword] 'teetotally ...inevery day use by the workingclasses. Teetotal
Hotel.92 Telltale. 18305. [Walsh, Lit. Curios, 1049.]It is said that Richard Turner,
an English temperance orator, who had an impediment in his speech, would ...
3
The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Volume 2: The Nineteenth ...
WILSON: Ye—yes—yes—sir. PHINEAS: I-Iolloa! there's a screw loose here
somewhere. That old gentlemen seems to be struck into a pretty considerable
heap of astonishment. May I be teetotally chawed up! if I don't believe that's the
identical ...
Craig S. Walker, Jennifer Wise, 2003
4
They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of ...
"They broke me teetotally up. I left my things and they would not allow me to go
back there, and I had to slip back and get my wife and children the best I could.
They took everything I had, and all my wife had, and broke us teetotally up. I had
to ...
5
Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911
She said she wouldn't hear a word from me so long as I owned a nigger! MARKS.
You sold them, I suppose? PHINEAS. You're teetotally wrong, neighbor. I gave
them all their freedom, and told 'em to vamose! MARKS. Ah! yes— very noble, ...
John Gassner, Mollie Gassner, 2000
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Port Out, Starboard Home: The Fascinating Stories We Tell ...
Confusing the issue is the fact that a related word, teetotally, already existed. That
certainly did use t as an initial intensifier, so the first form would have been t-
totally. It is first recorded in North America in 1832, the year before Dicky Turner's
...
7
Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and ...
With this book in your arsenal, you'll have the last word in every word-lover's game of one-upmanship.
Beshaioled Crone (toicing an aged beggar-man who wears a framed placard
reminding the public that " charity covers a multitude of sins," and announcing
that the bearer is not only " teetotally " deaf and dumb, but also blind, barmy and ...
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1920
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The Clockmaker, Or Sayings and Doings of Sam. Slick of ...
He was teetotally defleshed, a mere walkin' skeleton. I am dreadful sorry, says I,
to see you, Banks, lookin so peecked; why you look like a sick turkey hen, all legs
; what on airth ails you? lam dyin, says he, of a broken heart. What, says I, have ...
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1839
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The fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and his man Mark Antony ...
The Lord sees, the cratures did all they could for a good master as he was. Didn't
they kidnap the electors, tare down the booths, burn Peter Daly's talley-room
teetotally, — and throw a jaunting car, with six voters, clane over the bridge —
horse ...
William Hamilton Maxwell, 1843
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TEETOTALLY»
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teetotally is used in the context of the following news items.
Ignoring The Rules, Kelly Link Traffics In Wonder, Irony And …
"It sets up the size of a two-man tent, but on the inside, it's teetotally different, a cottage with two brass beds and a chifferobe to hang your things up in, and a ... «NPR, Feb 15»
Read a Story From Kelly Link's 'Get in Trouble'
It sets up the size of a two-man tent, but on the inside, it's teetotally different, a cottage with two brass beds and a chifferobe to hang your things up in, and a table, ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
The 50 days of Christmas (to be sung while off the booze)
I prefer to say, "teetotally challenged". On the second day of sobri'ty, my conscience said to me: Two words, "Oh shit". So it's really happening then? God help me ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 14»
I was so teetotally boring - for ten long, miserable years, the only …
I was so teetotally boring - for ten long, miserable years, the only alcohol I had was in mouthwash. By Hilary Freeman for The Mail on Sunday Updated: 15:06 ... «Daily Mail, Mar 09»
