10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRICKISHNESS»
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An English-Herero Dictionary: With an Introduction to the ...
TRICKISHNESS 'Trickishness, n. Om'-kauka. Trickle, v.i. Ziza; —, prop. crumble,
fall in small particles, mndata: orukutu maru randata = the sweat - it - trickles
down. "Tried, 10. or 0:. Having been put ' to the test, “ bewiihrt,” -piuka ; -piuke. '
Trifle ...
... might secure a fortune, he would start back with horror at the proposal. If you
were to inform him, that, by a similar slight falsehood, knavery, and trickishness,
you had yourself secured a fortune, he would look upon you with utter detestation
.
Fair," I d' say, for they're trickish ; they've bet us afore now, but 'twas all through
trickishness. We edn' allers up to their artfulness, but stren'th to stren'th they edn'
nothin' in the sight o' we. Well, Theophilus went up to Plymouth an' bet the Devon
...
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch,
1898
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Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination: Jonathan Edwards ...
unfair bargaining, and what Edwards called “trickishness.” Instead of caring for
their neighbors, those who saw the opportunity oppressed them, often seizing “an
advantage from another's ignorance, to blind him and to advance their own gain
...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
The quality of being tricky or trickish ; trickishness. The right of the blind to ask
charity lapses if It becomes a mere business and with all the trickiness by which a
street business is sometimes characterised. Mayhew, London Labour and
London ...
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
The quality of being tricky or trickish ; trickishness. The right of the blind to ask
charity lapses If it becomes a mere business and with all the trickiness by which a
street business is sometimes characterised. Mayhew, London Labour and
London ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith,
1897
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Der.tricker, trick ster; trickery (doublet of treachery, q. v.); trickish, trickishly,
trickishness; also tricksy, fullof tricks (formed by adding y to the pl. tricks), Temp. v.
226. And see trigger,trick (2), trick(3). TRICK(2), todress out, adorn.(F. –L.) 'Which
they ...
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Sermons on Living Subjects
... settle itself, as it will inevitably, under mere first impressions. Why then is it, and
how, that so much meanness, trickishness, oppression, unregulated and wild
passion, self-corrosion, painfulness, bitterness, distraction, are found in the world
?
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Counsels to Young Men on the Formation of Character, and the ...
There is a trickishness, a dexterity in low and little arts, that characterizes the
monkey rather than the man. Shallow minds, like shallow waters, often, perhaps
usually, babble loudest. Being young is no apology for being frivolous. Frivolity
suits ...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ...
ness; trickishness; Fraudulently, «fo. Jproneness to artifice. We admire the
Providence of God in the continuance of Scripture, notwithstanding the
endeavours of infidels to abolish, and the fraudulence of hereticks always to
deprave the same.
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)