10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOUNDILY»
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The English dialect dictionary
(1901) 320. w.Yks. llis slouch is woundily familiar, SUTCLIFFE Shameless lVaync
(1900) 117. Lan. Body 0' me, but you're grown woundily humoursome, RUBY
Trad. (1829) H. 301, ed. 1872; \Vhen 0t eh coom't grope ch meh stop t'pey 'ur, ...
Dick, without moving his eyes from the object that terrified him, replied, " O "
vather ! vather ! here be either the devil or a dead mon : I doant know which o'en,
but a groans " woundily." " woundily." — The sather, whose eye- fight was none 8
...
Tobias George Smollett, 1763
(Going to put it on) It smells woundily of sweat and brimstone. Pray, Sergeant,
what writing is this upon the face of it? kite 'The crown, or the bed of honour.' mob
Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour? kite Oh, a mighty large bed, ...
George Farquhar, Tiffany Stern, 2014
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More Duologues for All Accents and Ages
MOB Are you sure there be no conjuration in it, no gunpowder plot upon me?
KITE No, no, friend; don't fear, man. MOB My mind misgives me plaguily - let me
see it. [Going to put it on] It smells woundily of sweat and brimstone; pray,
Sergeant, ...
Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow, 2004
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Letters Written By The Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer ...
sident there is woundily in love with Madame * * * * ; if this- be true, God fend him,
rather than her, a good delivery. She must be etrennee at this season, and
therefore I think you should be so too ; so draw upon me, as soon as you please,
...
Philip Dormer Stanhope of Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope, Philip Stanhope, 1774
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Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field
A broader strain of colloquialism is perhaps introduced by 'woundily' (e.g., pp. ... '
injuriously', the form 'woundily' in the sense 'excessively' appears to be an
eighteenth-century coinage, first recorded in OED from Farquhar's Recruiting
Officer, ...
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Deadly Musings: Violence and Verbal Form in American Fiction
There are young men thinking doggedly and little crafts struggling woundily all
through Crane's fiction. The people and objects in his work are continually
described in such a way that they seem less people or objects than verbal
occasions, ...
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The plays of Oliver Goldsmith: together with The vicar of ...
Woundily, wondrously, excessively, very. ' They look woundily like Frenchmen.'
She Stoops, 100. Recorded as obsolescent in the English Dialect Dict. Cp. Roby,
Traditions of Lancashire (1829) ii. 301, ed. 1872, ' Body o' me, but you're grown ...
Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Edward Doble, George Ostler, 1909
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The New English Drama, with Prefatory Remarks, Biographical ...
My mind misgives me plaguily.—-Let me see it—( Going to put it on.) It smells
woundily of sweat and brimstone. Smell Tummas. Tho. Ay, wauns does it. Cost.
Pray, Sergeant, what writing is this upon the face of it? Serg. K. The crown, or the
bed ...
William Oxberry, William Hazlitt, 1819
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The Open Boat and Other Stories
But the waves continued their old impetuous swooping at the dinghy, and the
little craft, no longer under way, struggled woundily over them. The oiler orthe
correspondent tookthe oarsagain. Shipwrecksare apropos of nothing.Ifmen
couldonly ...
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149 Years Ago Today, Author And Poet Rudyard Kipling Was Born
'Once we frapped a ship, and she laboured woundily. There were fourteen score of these, And they blessed Thee on their knees, When they learned Thy Grace ... «Western Journalism, Dec 14»
