10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHEYFACE»
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The New monthly magazine and universal register. [Continued ...
It was Wheyface, who, in that spirit of amiability which characterises ingenuous
youth, was the first to sneer at the tardy development of Harold's mental
accomplishments ; and, encouraged by the passiveness with which his remarks
were ...
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The New Monthly Magazine
Mr. Wheyface — then entering his teens — and of some half-a-dozen other
scions of illustrious houses, one or two Sussex magnates included. It was
Wheyface, who, in that spirit of amiability which characterises ingenuous ...
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Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
But it was the same Wheyface who had not got very far with hisillustration before
he received a blow which hinted, too plainly to be mistaken, that the ooie de fait
was not likely to prove the best course towards an agreeable condition' of affairs
...
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The Best Words: More Than 200 of the Most Excellent, Most ...
Ww. wheyface (WEY-face) noun a person with a pallid face. How can one laugh
after all the misery they've poisoned us with, the whey-faced, lantern-jawed, sad,
suffering, solemn, serious, seraphic spirits? I understand the treachery that ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
... lady will call thee, the me— lancholy man; she has had no name for poor
Arabella, since last night but, wheyface; and certainly the girl, what with fright at
the thought of matrimony, and then fear of no matrimony, 251.
George Payne Rainsford James, 1844
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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
Macbeth calls one of the messengers wheyface. Steevens. Little wee is certainly
the right reading ; it implies something extremely diminutive, and is a very
common vulgar idiom in the North. Wee alone has only the signification of little.
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, 1821
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The Mind Crime of August Saint: A Novel
August gazed at the wheyface, skin drawn tightly over the bone, its unexpected
puff of coloratthe buttof the nose, oddly relieved and sympathetic. The priest's
features, now that he had finished talking, had lost their intensity and resumed a ...
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The Works: Revised & Corrected by the Author, with an ...
Come, cheer thee up, William, cheer thee up, or my lady will call thee the
melancholy man ; she has had no name for poor Arabella since last night but
Wheyface ; and certainly the girl, what with fright at the thought of matrimony, and
then ...
George Payne Rainsford James, 1849
... from his recent fit of drinking, will resume his work as bill-sticker in
Hammersmith next Monday. MRS. CURDS has retired from her milk- walk in
Camber well, having disposed of it by private contract to her neighbour, MBS.
WHEYFACE. MB.
Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, 1872
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary
... halfface; halffaced; illfaced;leanfaced; oldfaced; outface; palefaced; paperfaced
; redfaced; sadfaced; shamefaced; smoothfaced; sourfaced; sweetfaced;
tallowface; thinfaced; wheyface; whitefaced. Fair: thricefair;unfair. Fairy:
meadowfairics.
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHEYFACE»
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(I also find it nearly impossible not to compare Closed For Maintenance to Daniel Santangeli's Wheyface - a piece with a very similar format, but altogether more ... «ArtsHub, Jul 14»
Ryan Braun and nagging injuries
If you're as tempted as I am to rag on Braun as a "wuss," "weakling," "poltroon," or my personal favorite "wheyface," (thank you, thesaurus) understand that it may ... «Brew Crew Ball, May 14»
Mensch of Steel: Superman's Jewish Roots
Larry Tye states, “It was a place and time where juvenile weaklings and wheyfaces — especially Jewish ones, who were more likely to get sand kicked in their ... «Den of Geek, Dec 13»
Tye: Is Superman Jewish?
It was a place and time where every juvenile weakling and wheyface -- and especially Jewish ones, who were more likely to get sand kicked in their face by ... «Newsday, Nov 13»
Superman: That's funny, he doesn't look Jewish
It was a place and time where every juvenile weakling and wheyface – and especially Jewish ones who were more likely to get sand kicked in their face by ... «ABQ Journal, Oct 13»
Paul Di Filippo reviews James P. Blaylock
Then, more dangerously, comes the abrupt and poisonous Wheyface the Creeper, intent on stealing valuable documents and artifacts in the care of the Guild. «Locus Online, Sep 12»
