10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «SWAINING»
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Stra to Z
Swaining. 36 Swallow-tail. Adj. (common). — Tip-top {q.v.) \ SWELL {g.v.);
extremely new. 1886. New York Tribune (Semi- Weekly), 2 Nov. His gambling
parties were so swagger that rich money-lenders who wanted to extend their
social ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley,
1904
2
Education in Renaissance England
... even From the first cradle, whereby it becomes the putter up of pride in the
recluse, and the direction to disdain by dreaming still of betterment, the enemy to
unity between the unequal, the over-swaining of oneself not compared with
others, ...
And on these occasions there was an approach, a very slight approach, on
Hardinge's part, to something like swaining, which did her heart good ; although
she wished his manner had not been quite so cheerful and laughing ; and
although he ...
4
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong: The Factory Boy
In fact, his general manner to ladies had a good deal of what in female slang is
called swaining ; but to Lady Clarissa it was certainly something more. Had she
been simply Miss Shrimpton, it is probable that, notwithstanding her great mental
...
Frances Milton Trollope,
1840
5
As you Like it: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition
... the hands of the new owner. 95. Swaine. Swaine can mean (a) “a grasier, a
drover, a flock-keeper, a heardgrome” (JF, s.v. “Pastore”); (b) “A freeholder within
the forest” (OED); and/or (c) a lover (“swaining” is “Love-making; spooning,” F&H)
; ...
William Shakespeare, Demitra Papadinis,
2011
6
In Her Husband's Image (Mills & Boon Vintage Cherish)
“It'swaining! It's pouring cats and dogs! Will the dams fill up now?” Zac folded
them both in the solid warmth of his arms, clasping them to his sodden shirt.
Nobody cared about the dampness or the drops ofwater that splashed from
hishair.
Vivienne Wallington,
2014
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The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...
Meets propounded unto Alexander to cut •Main Athos into the form of a Jiatue,
nhii right hard should hold a town capa- swaining 10,000 men, and in his lift a vef
- rcrive all the water that flowed fiom the B*. iViliin*. — Ksiatue of Polycietus, call-
Ik ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis,
1807
8
Perspectives on Variation: Sociolinguistic, Historical, ...
... over/about, cracked about/on, crazy for, nuts about), madness (love-fit),
physical ailment (stricken, smite, languish), debased animal status (of acting in
lust) (monkey-parade, dammarat), game (love-play), and rustic idyll (swain,
swaining ...
Nicole Delbecque, Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Geeraerts,
2005
And on these occasions there was an approach, a very Blight approach, on
Hardinge's part, to something like swaining, which did her heart good ; although
she wished his manner had not been quite so cheerful and laughing ; and
although ...
Henry Milton (novelist.),
1840
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