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The Southern literary messenger
Once, because I would not vote in an election, for the candidate of my party, on
account of his bad moral character, — it was ridiculed as an old-maidish scruple.
The blockheads! They did not know that even then I held old maids in a
reverence ...
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Leonard Bloomfield, Essays on His Life and Work
Figure 19 Rule 1.2.46, "that which has signification, having a primary, secondary,
or compound, is a noun-stem", is applied on the basis of ish being a secondary to
class old-maidish as a noun-stem. The 4.1.1 - 5.4.160 set is again entered; this ...
Robert Anderson Hall, E. F. K. Koerner, 1987
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Zeluca; Or, Educated and Uneducated Women: A Novel ...
try — suppose ; — but your old maidish aunts would object of course ?" " They
would object ; — but why old maidish for so doing/' answered Marianne, " your
mother, who is not old maidish, has also objected, and, I am sure, I feel most
justly.
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Southern Literary Messenger
Better reason still, had I, for deeming the epithet " old-maidish" a term of exalted
praise. The earthly Being, to whom, after father and mother, I owe the most, — is
a maiden aunt — my aunt H***+**. It is an article of my devoutest belief, that she ...
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Leonard Bloomfield: Critical Assessments of Leading Linguists
... old maidish I woman (not: old I maidish woman); old maid I ish (not: old I
maidish); old I maid 4.6. Underlying and Bound Forms Instead of calling these
head and attribute, the terms in syntax, we speak in morphology of
UNDERLYING FORM ...
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The Nelson Contemporary English Dictionary
... lnTdiworl'dil adj (colll selfconsciously old-fashioned old-fashioned loldfash'ondl
adj out of date old hand n a person with long experience old hat adj (colll out of
date old maid n an elderly woman not likely to marry old maidish adj fussily tidy ...
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The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Her hunger serves as a source of both wonder and cheap laughs: “Truly it was
amazing, the prowess of this scraggy child with the long, old-maidish face. . .She
ate: whether it tasted good or not, whether they teased her or not, she smiled and
...
Catherine L. Dollard, 2013
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Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus
.pert, to an old maid, adj: mop-eyed [1699 cant die]; tabby 1748; old- maidish
1757 — ; old-maidenly 1784 + 1896; spinsterian 1819 + 1881; spinsterial 1849 +
1874; old-maidenish' 1867; old-maidy 1884 - 1923; spinsterish' 1892 — ...
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Percival Keene by Captain Marryat R.N.C.B
whom she had a sort of old maidish aversion. However this position might be
found useful to her mistress, it must be admitted that it was a m05t unfortunate
position for a young, thoughtless, and very pretty girl, moreover, who was
naturally ...
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Faulkner and His Contemporaries
Even Sherwood Anderson and others who saw Saxon as “old-maidish” and too
much devoted to the magnolia and crino- line myth of the Old South recognized
his importance (Anderson's “oldmaidish,” I think, is his code word for “gay”).
Joseph R. Urgo, Ann J. Abadie, 2009
WIADOMOŚCI, KTÓRE ZAWIERAJĄ SŁOWO «OLD-MAIDISH»
Sprawdź, o czym dyskutuje się w prasie krajowej i zagranicznej oraz jak jest stosowane słowo
old-maidish w wiadomościach.
Review: 'The Paying Guests,' by Sarah Waters
Frances is dowdy and “old-maidish,” a “cross-grained, unmarriageable daughter” immersed in a tame life of “buns and parish bazaars and ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Paz 14»
The Paying Guests: by Sarah Waters
The stylish details made her uneasy along with everything else, made her feel old-maidish, with her pinned-up hair and her angles, and her ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Wrz 14»
Tom Rodriguez sets the pace in 'My Destiny'
For her part, Carla is cast as the “old-maidish” ate of Rhian Ramos' own pert and breezy character, so it's possible that Rhian and Tom could ... «Inquirer.net, Lip 14»
Adams on Reel Women: Lily Tomlin Talks “Admission,” Her Unique …
LT: When I started out, a woman wasn't supposed to do comedy, unless she played on being unattractive, flat- chested, or old-maidish. «Yahoo! Movies, Mar 13»
Politically incorrect
Generally, the notion of keeping a diary is now considered a bit old-maidish. And Winstone, who has edited diaries by Benn and Chris Mullin, ... «Financial Times, Paz 12»
Barbra Streisand: An Icon's 50th Anniversary in Showbiz
Her hair wasn't coiffed either, but instead knotted in an old-maidish bun. "Spinster Incarnate," Laurents thought, which was precisely what he ... «Huffington Post, Mar 12»
Theater review: 'El Nogalar' at the Fountain Theatre
We meet feisty Dunia (charming Sabina Zuniga Varela) and weepy, old-maidish Valeria (sweet, endearing Isabelle Ortega) preparing the ... «Los Angeles Times, Lut 12»
Case Histories
The producers have cast the exuberant Julia and her old-maidish sister, Amelia (Fenella Woolgar), superbly well (Jackson was on the trail of ... «New Statesman, Cze 11»
The mother of lost children: The truth about wartime heroine Edith …
And she adds, "Edith Cavell was never prim, never old-maidish. She gathered around her a rather modern 'family' of needy individuals, headed ... «Independent, Paz 10»
A Writer And Reader On Why Book Publishers Fail
Publishing was, she said quite gaily, possibly on its last legs and who knew where the poor old-maidish behemoth was headed. The trash can ... «Forbes, Gru 08»
