КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «HUMBUGGER»
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The Humbugged Turned
Humbugger, Or, the True Art of ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
humbugger . A cheat: low coll: ca 1751–1890. 2. A hoaxer: coll: from ca 1752; ob.
3. One who constantly fools about, an habitual deceiver: coll: from ca 1760.
Henry Brooke, in Poems, at that 'On Humbugging': 'To you...the humbugers of ...
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The Belfast Monthly Magazine
... co-operation in the censure of that wretched perversiori of the human faculties,
called lmmbugging. The humbugger is the great pest of i this town: Icau reject
mvitations to parties, or discourage the intimacy of persons 1 disapprove of, but ...
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Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History
... 37 flagman/woman, 49, 146 Florida Memorial University, 131 Forde, Carlton (
Lord Humbugger), 32–33, 36 Fort Picton, 11 free blacks, 9, 19 Free French Steel
Band, 70 freedom dues, 13 French planters: French/Creole influence, 3, 9, 10, 13
, ...
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Rory O'More: A National Romance
Phelim was silent for some time after he left the booth, but at last broke out with, "
That fellow 's a humbugger ! " " That 's his business," said De Lacy, " and
therefore you can't give him higher praise than to say he is a hum- bugger." " And
is that ...
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The rambles of my uncle
THE HUMBUGGER. *< YONDER is a man tumbled down in a fit." Humanity and
compassion made me, with two or three others, nxn to give the poor man all the
assistance in our power — we liastened to the end of the park — there was no ...
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Soulstice: Luna's Dream
“You're a fast little humbugger,” he says to me. I laugh, “Yes I am.” “Of course I'm
old. In my younger days I would have got you... Iwas quite the fast little
humbugger myself,” he says. “I'm sure you were and I would have been caught,” I
tell him.
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The Prevalence of Humbug and Other Essays
quackery, hoax, fraud, and imposture); for the verb, "impose on" (with cross-
references to deceive, cajole, and hoax); for its application to a humbugger, "a
person who usually willfully deceives or misleads others as to his true condition,
...
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The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1770-1803
of The Lord Chief Joker & General Humbugger of North America West of the
Apalachian Mountain Given under my hand and the great seal, on the First day of
January in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety two of the Christian
...
Andrew Jackson, Sam B. Smith, Harriet Fason Chappell Owsley, 1980
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The Twentieth Century Magazine
The Humbugger knows that the average human animal (civilized) always wants
to get something for nothing. Relying on this gambling instinct, he goes forth
confidently to sell his gold-bricks — and he sells them, too. The market can never
be ...
Benjamin Orange Flower, Charles Zueblin, 1911
НОВОСТИ, В КОТОРЫХ ВСТРЕЧАЕТСЯ ТЕРМИН «HUMBUGGER»
Здесь показано, как национальная и международная пресса использует термин
humbugger в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.
Sisters Face 10 Years in Jail for Tampering With Zesa Meter
Melody, 36, and Ivy Zvomuya, 28, of 5 Humbugger Street in Marondera's industrial site, are accused of accessing free electricity after one ... «AllAfrica.com, Июн 15»
Danish Christmas: Fun, festive and flammable
But still, even an old humbugger like me has to admit, the Danes give great Christmas. Though the sight of real candles on a brittle, room-dried ... «The Local Denmark, Дек 14»
A Show for Christmas review – schmaltz-free Yule sentiment from …
His work is also unapologetically sentimental, and who, bar the severest bah-humbugger, isn't up for dewy eyes at Christmas time? «The Guardian, Дек 14»
The Origins of Santa Claus
The Grinch, of course, is Anti-Claus, but he resembles both the American Santa and the greatest Christmas humbugger of all, Ebeneezer ... «Newswise, Дек 14»
Variety Is The Spice Of 'Caroled!'
Clumsily established as a world-class humbugger, he then experiences a seismic event that knocks him back into his past as part of a famous ... «pride source.com, Ноя 14»
REVIEW: White Christmas, Dominion Theatre
... the second Act zips by, and overall there is so much joy and talent that pretty much everyone, apart from the most committed bah-humbugger, ... «British Theatre, Ноя 14»
Off Broadway Review: 'Just Jim Dale'
... for playing “the greatest humbugger the world has ever known”) has suckered the audience with “one of the oldest Music Hall jokes I know.”. «Variety, Июн 14»
A Pittsburgh writer's audacious first novel blends corporate satire …
... was "this character who was this wild, radical, drug-addled anarcho-capitalist humbugger who mostly wrote about politics," says Bacharach. «PGH City Paper, Апр 14»
See 'Bad Santa,' 'Scrooged' at Huntington theater, plus more movie …
... version of St. Nick, plus 1988's "Scrooged," an update of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with Bill Murray as a modern-day humbugger. «Newsday, Дек 13»
Topsy the Elephant and the Topsy-Turvy World of Animal Abuse
One was run by perhaps the most renowned “humbugger” of all time, P.T. Barnum, and the other by a circus owner named Adam Forepaugh, ... «Workforce Management, Дек 13»
