10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TWITTINGLY»
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis, Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, ...
Sir Thomas More's lady, being sick of daughters, prayed importunately for a boy,
and nothing but a boy would serve ; whereupon she had a boy, which, as Sir
Thomas wittily and twittingly told her, would be a boy, so long as he lived ! Junius.
"Don't quite know," I replied twittingly "Let me see the label!' Ha-ha's were
exchanged, and Freddie toddled off home a happier and wiser man. Great
Western Aurora Sauterne* Vin extraordinaire from New York State, AURORA
SMJTERNE ...
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The Union Dictionary: Containing All that Truly Useful in ...
Twitchgrass, twitsh-gris'. s. a plant. Mort. Twitter, twit't6r. -v. n. to make a sharp
tremulous intermitted noise. Dryd. Twitter, twit'tfir. s. any motion or disorder of
passion. _ Hudibras. Twittingly, twit'tlng-lb. ad. with reproach, so as to upbraid.
Junius.
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and ...
nexion with the circular, was shewn by that officer a letter from Lord Camberrnere
, which, Capt. M. says, “ expressed the surprise and vexation of the noble writer,
at having been told (somewhat twittingly, as I apprehended from the tone of his ...
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The literary life of the rev. William Harness
One of his churchwardens, who was aware of his peculiar views, asked him one
day, twittingly, whether he would not adopt " Hymns Ancient and Modern ?" " I
would as soon read ' Paradise Lost ' for the first lesson," was his terse reply.
Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange, 1871
VI. , 1 The hvshz'si qflZ-ring for fim' darke twittingly. 19 The tssring at t/n- twist-
tration 'yf a priest. AN D_ the LORD spake unto Moses, say'n , \ -a._lt a sonl sm,
and commit a trcspass against the Lonu, and lie unto his neighhour in that which
...
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The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments ... : ...
0 And if the avenger ofblood pur a 6' ma sue after him, then they shall not An.l£
xod.hr. deliver the slayer up into his hand; “3;,” because he smote his neighbour
un- l-O'YmP-“Twittingly, and hated him not- beforetime. 6 And he shall dwell in
that ...
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The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by ...
(overbearing) Now by the Gods I hear him with delight : I'm sure he loves
ceconomy by his talk. Meg. No wife would then say twittingly, — " I've brought you
A larger portion than your own estate : 30 " It is but just then I should have fine
cloaths, ...
Titus Maccius Plautus, 1767
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An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Comprehending ...
... tfac Hollow ou thc iuside ot (bc Thigh. To TWIST, to fold round. TWISTING,
solding iouod. TWISTINGLY, in a twistiog Mannci. TWIST, aTwig. Chue. ToTWIT [
Cepitan, Sar] to upbraid with ; to twit or hit in the Tceth. TWITTiNGLY,
upbraidingly.
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The Ladies' Lexicon, and Parlour Companion ...: Being Also ...
To sneer, to flout, to reproach. pr. par. twitting; past, twitted; adv. twittingly.
TWITCH. v. To pull with a quick motion ; to snatch. pr. par. twitching; past,
twitched: s. twitch. TWITTER. v. To make a sharp, tremulous, intermitted noise; to
simper. pr.
