10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «MISCHANCY»
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mischancy nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
mischancy e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
1
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... that was certainly very thochtfu' 0' our great folks, and maks a body fee proud 0'
their native. Ye ken I'm very sib t'ye a', and before this mischancy war brack out, I
used to mak a canny livelihood amang ye in the Greenland trade.— Eh, man ...
You would wonder, if your English pigs had half the value of the Scotch." “
Possibly, madam." “ Of a verity," continued Mrs. M'Crie, “ there was a pig played
me ance a maist mischancy trick. Ye see, I expected a airty of our Presbytery to
denner, ...
The schule callants had gotten the play this weary Saturday, and naething wad
serve them but a boat. Boats were never made for bairns, and we set a watch on
the yawls, lest the mischancy creatures sud lay hands on ane ; but, Gude forgie
us ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1832
4
The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art
The achule callants had gotten the play this weary Saturday, and naething wad
serve them but a boat. Boats were never made for bairns, and we set a watch on
the yawls, lest the mischancy creatures sud lay hands on one; but, Gude forgie us
...
Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith, 1832
5
The old forest ranger; or, Wild sports of India on the ...
It 's just a mischancy bit, this same glen ; and, bonny though it be, I wish we were
well out o' it ; for, after what we hae heard this blessed morning, it were a mere
tempting o' Providence to bide here ony longer. And, Oh, Sir," casting a rueful ...
Walter Campbell (writer on India.), 1842
And then he saw that this room was in everything like the brown room at Asch in
which now for so many years he had conducted his studies and his
thaumaturgies ; and that in this mischancy place, for all his arduous traveling
beyond the ...
James Branch Cabell, 2009
7
The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith
... be on the look-out — as we aye used to be when walking sentry in the
volunteers — in case the flames should by ony mischancy accident or other,
happen to break out again. My wife blamed my hardihood muckie, THE AWFBL
NIGHT. 171.
David Macbeth Moir, Mansie Wauch, 1828
"Boy, fast and loose is a mischancy game to play." "And being born, also, is a
most hazardous speculation, Sister, yet we perforce risk all upon that cast." "Now
you talk stuff and nonsense — " "Yes, Sister, but I begin to suspect that the right
sort ...
James Branch Cabell, 1923
9
The Art of Deer-stalking
... of Schehalien. " I ken this Beg is no fit place for Christian men in the fire-flaught.
The day is mischancy, and sure as deith something will happen, for I heard the
lament 158 SPORTSMEN STRUCK BY A THUNDERBOLT. sung yesterday in the
.
10
Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the ...
As for Mr. Stephenson's mischancy invention, during 1829, of the locomotive
steam engine, that flighty latter-day contraption has been so very severely
ignored in our neighborhood that no railway has ever entered the Northern Neck.
James Branch Cabell, 1947
