10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «TORPEDINOUS»
Descubre el uso de
torpedinous en la siguiente selección bibliográfica. Libros relacionados con
torpedinous y pequeños extractos de los mismos para contextualizar su uso en la literatura.
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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: System of the heavens as ...
They were the tubes ; and he forced through their wooden machinery his own
Beethoven harmonies. First came Dr. Andrew Bell. We knew him. Was he dull ?
Is a wooden spoon dull ? Fishy were his eyes ; torpedinous was his manner ; and
...
Fishy were his eyes ; torpedinous was his manner ; and his main idea, out of two
which he really had, related 'to the moon—from which you infer, perhaps, that he
was lunatic. By no means. It was no craze, under the influence of the moon, ...
... streams babble most ; and his converse proposition was that silent, stupid folk
are the solid and reliable props of the temple of wisdom. § * "First came Dr.
Andrew Bell. Was he dull? Is a wooden spoon dull? Fishy were his eyes;
torpedinous ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1864
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Fishy were his eyes ; torpedinous was his manner ; and his main idea, out of two
which he really had, related to the moon—from which you infer, perhaps, that he
was lunatic. By no means. It was no craze, under the influence of the moon, ...
Nor in - this circumstance only did the fimilitude between the electric and
torpedinous fiuids appear: one of the most brilliant of 'Mr \Va]sh's discoveries was
, that this [anima] not only could accumulate in one part a large quantity of electric
...
6
On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries: Being the ...
Bentley Tornado, sb. Carlyle Torpedinous, adj. De Quincey Torpedo, sb. machine
for blowing up ships, Smiles Torrefaction, sb. De Quincey Torrefied, ad'. Gregor
Torrent, sb. lluskin, 'll Torsion, sb. De Quincey Torso, sb. Irving Tortoise, sb. miht.
Richard Chenevix Trench, 1857
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the new monthyl magazine
... and his converse proposition was that silent, stupid folk are the solid and
reliable props of the temple of wisdom. § * "First came Dr. Andrew Bell. Was he
dull? Is a wooden spoon dull? Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous were his
manners," &c.
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH, 1864
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The New Monthly Magazine
... and his converse proposition was that silent, stupid folk are the solid and
reliable props of the temple of wisdom. § * "First came Dr. Andrew Bell. Was he
dull? Is a wooden spoon dull? Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous were his
manners," &c.
9
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duell
... supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous torporific†; sleepy &c (inactive) 683;
languid, halfhearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic &c 376; stupefied,
chloroformed, drugged, stoned; palsystricken. indifferent, lukewarm; careless,
mindless, ...
John Donne, William Henry Draper, Izaak Walton, 1926
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Coleridge and Opium-eating ; and Other Writings
Fishy were his eyes ; torpedinous was his manner ; and his main idea, out of two
which he really had, related to the moon — from which you infer, perhaps, that he
was lunatic. By no means. It was no craze, under the influence of the moon, ...
