10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THONDER»
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A Lexical Concordance to the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: S-T
F. SO 258 As soore wondren somme on cause of thonder, HF 534 But never was
ther dynt of thonder, HF 608 Am dwellynge with the god of thonder, HF 1681 And
north, as lowde as any thunder, Tr 1 1 233 And Jupiter, that maketh the thondre ...
Akio Oizumi, Geoffrey Chaucer, 2003
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Middle English Dictionary
Troy 2845: Sithera. .now cald is by course, of hom bat costes hauntyn, Sytrinos
forsothe, with Sailers to nome. tonchoure -» tonsure. toncresse -» touncresse.
fonder -» thonder; tinder; toundour. tondre -» thonder; tinder. tön(e n. Also (chiefly
N ...
Hans Kurath, Robert E. Lewis, Sherman McAllister Kuhn, 1996
So great indeed is their resemhlanee, that thonder and lightning eaonot he
regarded as noy other than a grander speeies of eleetrieity 'natnrally prndneed
withont the feehle efforts of art. This flnid is, prohahly, at all times diffnsed throngh
the ...
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The Examinations of Anne Askew
cryed there lyke madde modye bedlemes, as they hearde the thonder, They are
dampned, they are dampned, their wyse preachers outasynge the same at
Paules crosse. In dede full nobyllye are they overseane in the Byble that judge
the ...
Anne Askew, Elaine V. Beilin, 1996
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and ...
Of the signification of thonder in every day of the weake. If it thonder on the
Sondaye, there wil be a great death ofclarkes, of judges, and other peruers
people by signification. If on the Mondaye it chaunce to thonder, then many
women shall ...
Sir Egerton Brydges, 1809
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Proposed final environmental impact statement for the ...
INTRODUCTION Volume III, Page 71 The coal screening procedure applied to
federal coal lands in the Thonder Sasin Nationat Grassland fTSNGl was the
same as that described in appendix 2 of the second draft RMP/EIS. It included ...
United States. Bureau of Land Management. Buffalo Resource Area, United States. Bureau of Land Management. Casper District, 1985
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Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for ...
[OF < L aquila]) thonder-clappe I.PS 174 (thonder n. [OE thunor] + clappe n. [OE
clappian]) thonder-dent Tr 5.1505 (thonder n. [OE thunor] + dent n. [OE dynt])
thonder-leyt Bo l.m.4.11 (thonder n. [OE thunor] -I- leyt n. [OE leoht]) thurghfare A.
KN ...
Raymond Hickey, Stanisław Puppel, 1997
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A Scots Grammar: Scots Grammar and Usage
When the objects are relatively remote, yon yonder, thon or thonder can be used.
Yon/thon (is) thefoxoweryonder/thonder! Yon/thon (is/ir) the laird's kye
oweryonder/thonder! Thonder the dug ower yonder/thonder ahint the yowes!
Here is used ...
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Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Thonder (thunder), s. thunder, A 493, F 258 ; T. ii. 233, iii. 662 ; Thunder, L. 1219.
Thonder-clappes, s. pi. thunderclaps, I 174. Thonder-dlnt, s. stroke of lightning, T.
v. 1505 ; D 276 ; Thon- der-dent, thunder-clap, A 3807. Thonderer (thunderer) ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter W. Skeat, 2008
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The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: ...
Thonder then, say I, is an apparent token of God's wrath and displesure, not only
because it hath byn by poeticall invencions so expounded, but because we see
by experience, that it never (or very seldom) bringeth good ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THONDER»
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thonder is used in the context of the following news items.
I know just the vicar for my parish church. Pity he's fictional
But he ne lafte nat for reyn ne thonder,. In siknesse nor in meschief to visít'. I remember listening to my old English teacher, a veteran of the war in the far east, ... «Spectator.co.uk, Mar 15»
Legislation proposes funding for UTA
thonder posted at 8:45 am on Tue, Feb 24, 2015. thonder Posts: 1. A computer scientist at the University of Texas at Arlington hopes to make sure the troops can ... «UTA The Shorthorn, Feb 15»
Laughing Gas: In Defense of the Fart Joke
... whose The Miller's Tale paints a slapstick ruckus in a few lines of verse: After Nicholas lets fly his “thonder-dent” at his romantic rival Absalom, Absalom smites ... «TIME, Oct 13»
You could never lose Mr Bean in translation
Chaucer, 3,000 years later, amused readers of The Miller's Tale with a fart “as greet as it had been a thonder-dent”. Physical humour translates much better ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 12»
