10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHIFT»
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whift in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Selected Works of Louis Becke
Five minutes later the two boats pushed off, and then, as they sped over the
glassy surface of the ocean and the huge carcass of the whale was more clearly
revealed, Bock called out to his superior officer that he could see a whift {*} on it.
2
The Plays of William Shakspeare: Glossarial index. Tempest. ...
Tke wild waves whift; ) j. e. the wild waves bting Ji!t»l. So, In Spenfer's Fairy
Queen, B. VII. c. 7. f. 5g: •i Se was the Titanejs pvt down, and whift." And Milion
fcems to have had our author in his eye. See flanza 5. of his Hymn on the -
Nativity: u 'far ...
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, 1799
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Harrison's British Classicks: The Connoisseur. The Citizen ...
The education of females ii at pre- fent happily elevated far above the ordinary
employments of domeftic oeco- siomy ; and if any fchool is wanted for the
improvement of young ladies, I may venture to fay, it mould be a School for Whift.
4
Cyril Thornton: Von William Napier : Nach Dem Englischen Von ...
Thornton. Whift um eine halbe Krone. ift das nicht allerliebft?-- »Nun. ich hoffe.
Sie fpielten den Angenehmen und willigten ein.-»Was konnte ich thun? Zuerft
fchlug ich es aus. aber Lady Greystoke ift eine alte. wunderliche Dame; fie fprach
von ...
William Francis Patrick Napier, 1845
5
The ocean waifs: a story of adventure on land and sea
For that reason they have struck her with this pair o' drogued harpoons ; and
stuck this whift into her back. On fust seein' that, I war inclined to think different.
You see the whift be stickin' a'most straight up, an' how could that a' been done
by ...
Ah, no ! yon cell no learned tenant knows, Far other fcenes the powerful fpells
difclofe, There round the flag of indolence enlift, Profefforsof the Graces, and of
whift, Deaf to philofophy, to feeling dead, A gamefter's cares engrofs the ftudent's
...
7
The New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English ...
ЛгУ b'í(peTtv.chucboter;murmsirtr "Whiípcr, f. bruit fiurd, га. Whífperer, cbucbeteur,
fe. Whift, int. chut [bouche с ou fui Whift, (game) /. tohiß, on Whífrle,»/, ш. WhíRle,
v.fifler WMaia.f.ßßeur.fe. V/biMiaf;,ßjßement, m. Whittling, a.ßßenl, t, fA&T II, Whit ...
Thomas Nugent, J.S. Charrier (ed. lit.), 1784
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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... ...
bifhop. f His grace faid, he had heard, that the clergyman ufed to play at whift and
f'wobbers ; that as to playing now and then a fober game at whift for paftime, it
might be pardoned; but he could not digeft thofe wicked fwobbers; and it was with
...
9
THE LADY'S MAGAZINE OR ENTERTAINING COMPANION FOR THE FAIR SEX
Whift, vrife of Mark Whift, efq. one of the cornmiflionert of excife, and daughter of
the late rev. * Saunders, D. D. vicar of .Si. Mattiit'l. 7. John Hawkins, efq. of the
Circus, at Bath, eMcir ion of fir t~arfar Hawkins, to- jtarit-fur^on to his majefty. 8.
10
A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire
... be much." Whap, i, beat. 2, vanquish in a contest. What cheer ! a salutation.
Whether or not means the same as reason or none. Whewin, passing quickly. "
What a wind comes whewin throo t' doar sneck !" See " Nat- terin Nan." Whift, a ...
William Stott Banks, 1865
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHIFT»
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Should the House pass the Hiawayi Robinson Emergency Missing …
Whift went the Cheese -- This is a nice gesture but the one responsible was the one that supposedly killed her. Do you think the Hiawayi Robinson Emergency ... «AL.com, Mar 15»
Go inside the 49ers new Levi Stadium
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS BEGINNING A NEW CHAPTER IN THE TEAM'S 69-YEAR WHIFT THE OFFICIAL DEBUT OF THE LEVI STADIUM. WE'RE GOING TO ... «KCRA Sacramento, Sep 14»
An Almost Complete List of Every Word We've Ever Used to Mean …
And several seem to be motivated by the sound of the word as much as by any meaning it might have: jingled, whift, whiffled, squiffy, whittled, spiflicated, zonked. «The New Republic, Aug 14»
