10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSISTERED»
Discover the use of
unsistered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unsistered and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hunting the Sun: Faulkner's Appropriations of Balzac's Writings
Absalom, Absalomf s Rosa Coldfield plaintively asks "bad I not heired too from all
the unsistered Eves since the Snake f"; A Green Bough's poem XXXIX repeats
the phrase, and poem XLII and The Town employ nearly identical ones. Faulkner
...
Cool on a migrant wing, if I sing at all, Down-gliding, up-carried, Free must be
over mountain and sea my call, Unsistered, unmarried (10; emphasis added) And
the biographer wisely adds, "Unsistered, unmarried. But what she did not say ...
3
Human's Perfect Food: Rediscovering Ancient Grain Jere
When seasons get late, like what happened in the Skagit with lots of
unseasonably cold, dark weather, ancient grain will conserve on energy and will
produce large numbers of unsistered glumes – those glumes that contain only
one kernel, ...
4
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
28 unsistered . . . heir Steevens's emendation, 'unscissored . . . hair' has so far
been universally adopted, because it seems to relate to Pericles' subsequent vow
, reported by Gower in 4.4.27—8, that 'He swears / Never to wash his face nor cut
...
William Shakespeare, Doreen DelVecchio, Antony Hammond, 1998
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Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of His ...
28-9, Pericles, often emended to unscissored) , OED Unsistered ppl.a. [1738];
unsunned *'not tanned by the sun': As Chaste, as vn-Sunn'd Snow. (Cym 2.5.13,
Posthumus), OED Unsunned ppl.a.2; funsured 'uncertain': Thy now vnsur d ...
Norman Blake, Norman Francis Blake, 2006
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Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
119:24 But root and urge I do insist and claim, for had I not heired too from all the
unsistered Eves since the Snake? Rosa insists upon her sexual nature, her
desire. At 116:3 she claims to be “twin sistered” to Clytie, common products of ...
Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk, 2010
"lH]ad I not heired" might be understood to mean, was I not descended from, in
this case, "all" lapsarian women (when Eve, prompted by the Snake, falls from the
Garden, she becomes Adam's wife and is, therefore, "unsistered" [Leach]).
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Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition
Therefore, forever unsistered for him by the stroke of Fate, and apparently forever
, and twice removed from the remotest possibility of that love which had drawn
him to his Lucy; yet still the object of the ardentest and deepest emotions of his ...
9
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nature was her teacher. ; What if a lonely and unsistered creature Loved her own
harmless gift of pleasing feature, Saying, unsaddened, — This shall soon be
faded, And double-hued the shining tresses braided, And all the sunlight of the ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 2009
10
Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
The Quarto reads as follows: by bright Diana, whom we honour, All unsistered
shall this heyre of mine remayne, Though I shew will in't. Suzanne Gossett is
quite right to suggest that the Quarto reading makes sense on its own terms,79
yet it is ...
