10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THREADBARENESS»
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threadbareness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
threadbareness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Assemblies of Al Harîri: The first twenty-six assemblies
And he said, " Since ye have hurt my honour on account of my worn garment, and
cast a shadow on my soul for the threadbareness of my coat, — I will look upon
you only with a heated eye; ye shall have from me only a ship's companionship.
Ḥarīrī, Francis Joseph Steingass, 1867
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The Assemblies of Al-Harīri: Translated from the Arabic, ...
And he said, " Since ye have hurt my honour on account of my worn garment, and
cast a shadow on my soul for the threadbareness of my coat, — I will look upon
you only with a heated eye; ye shall have from me only a ship's companionship.
Ḥarīrī, Thomas Chenery, Francis Joseph Steingass, 1867
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The Assemblies of Al Harîri
And he said, " Since ye have hurt my honour on account of my worn garment, and
cast a shadow on my soul for the threadbareness of my coat, — I will look upon
you only with a heated eye; ye shall have from me only a ship's companionship.
Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim Ibn ʿAlī Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī, 1867
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The Assemblies of Al Ḥarîri: 1: containing the introduction ...
It is folly that thou shouldst magnify the ignorant by reason of I the brightness of
his dress or the splendour of his adorning; Or that thou shouldst make little of the
man who is refined in soul on account of the threadbareness of his garb, or the ...
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The Assemblies of Al Ḥarîri: 1: containing the first 26 ...
... but he declined from intimacy, and leaned not to the gift—And he said, “Since
ye have hurt my honour on account of my worn garment, and cast a shadow on
my soul for the threadbareness of my coat,—I will look upon you only with a
heated ...
al-Qāsim Ibn-ʻAlī al- Ḥarīrī, 1867
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The Assemblies of al Ḥarîri, tr. with an intr., and notes, ...
And he said, " Since ye have hurt my honour on account of my worn garment, and
cast a shadow on my soul for the threadbareness of my coat, — I will look upon
you only with a heated eye; ye shall have from me only a ship's companionship.
Kâsim b. ʻAlî Ḥarîrî (al-.̣), 1867
And he said, “Since ye have hurt my honour on account of my worn garment, and
cast a shadow on my soul for the threadbareness of my coat,—I will look upon
you only with a heated eye; ye shall have from me only a ship's companionship.
al-Qāsim Ibn-ʿAlī ¬al- Ḥarīrī, Francis Joseph Steingass, 1870
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The Calling of Education: "The Academic Ethic" and Other ...
It is only that the new problems disclose the moral threadbareness of the
scientific and technological professions. They also disclose the moral
threadbareness of the population as a whole in facing problems of a sort which
have never been ...
Edward Shils, Steven Grosby, 2008
honour is always ready to start, apprehensive that everybody sees, a league off,
the patcii upon his shoe, the sweating-through of his hat, the threadbareness of
his cloke, and the hunger of his stomach !" All these melancholy reflections ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1809
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The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing: Lectures Delivered ...
... muchreduced by polishing andrubbing, you soon hearofan appearance of
bareness—I was going tosay threadbareness—making itself manifest. This
issimply because thecolour ordye only penetrates a very little way downintothe
substance ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THREADBARENESS»
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threadbareness is used in the context of the following news items.
Tony Gillan: Who is to blame for Sunderland's terrible season?
Who else can we blame for the present state of the club and the threadbareness of the squad? Possibly Lee Congerton, the sporting director since March 2014; ... «Sunderland Echo, May 15»
National Service review – a cultural history of postwar British call-up
As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s, however, the threadbareness of imperial Britain could hardly be ignored. Jamaica and other islands in the anglophone ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
Ali Smith: 'He looked like the finest man who ever lived'
... billowing richly round the tops of his thighs, which were showing through the piecemeal tied-together threadbareness of legwear ripped open at the knees too ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
The View from the Train: Cities & Other Landscapes By Patrick …
The threadbareness of British manufacturing seems equally to grieve and fascinate Keiller: few can forget the image in London of Concorde rising like a ... «The Independent, Dec 13»
A Strange Sort of Justice at West Point
If anything, Col. Visger understated the threadbareness of the prosecution case. Since there were no eyewitnesses to the sexual activity, it was she-said/he-said. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 13»
A Delicate Truth, By John le Carré
Le Carré has always liked to dilate on the threadbareness of post-imperial Britain and the mirage of the country's importance on the world stage; Gibraltar, ... «The Independent, Apr 13»
Raindrops Keep Falling on Their Heads: Will Self's Modernist …
Umbrella casts a wide net of allusion, but sometimes the richness of its weave points up a threadbareness in the characters captured within. The enkies “were ... «New York Observer, Jan 13»
Great Works: Saint Francis in Meditation (1635-9) by Francisco de …
Interestingly, this threadbareness of the fabric of the habit rhymes very well with the condition of the frame of the painting, which is not in such a good state at all ... «The Independent, Nov 12»
The Clueless Politics of 'Cloud Atlas'
Gimmicks are gimmicks even when done in the service of art, I'm afraid; the threadbareness of the thought has a way of shining through. In the egalitarian world ... «The Nation., Oct 12»
The Interrogation Room: Mario Kart 3DS
As for the threadbareness of the series, I think that when it comes to multiplayer, Mario Kart still has a lot of love to give -- although we didn't get to actually play ... «Gamespy.com, Jun 11»
