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Jack
the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy ...
... CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT.... The decipherment of Tautriadelta. Not its literal
meaning but its mystic significance. THE LITERARY QUEST The quest for D'
Onston proved almost as will-o-the-wispish as that for the Ripper himself.
However ...
... controversies over the causes of systemic unemployment or continuous
inflation).25 From the interpretivist standpoint the notion that perpetual context
smashing is the key to human liberation appears will-o'-the-wispish for different
reasons.
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Text to Text Pours Forth Speech: Voices of Scripture in ...
Although echoes of scripture depend on readers who catch echoes, the echoes
may be overly subtle, arbitrary, will-o'-the-wispish. I am aware that some of the
proposals that follow may appear to veer too far down the wrong road. For that ...
4
Alone in
the Dawn:
The Life of Adelaide Crapsey
The Properly Scholarly Attitude The poet pursues his beautiful theme; The
preacher his golden beatitude; And I run after a vanishing dream — The glittering
, will-o'-the-wispish gleam Of the properly scholarly attitude — The highly
desirable, ...
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A History of
the Mind: Evolution and
the Birth of Consciousness
But in addition to this I have what I can only describe as a will-o'-the- wispish
impression of a patchy, cow-shaped, purplish-colored projected image — a
version of the retinal stimulus I would be receiving from a purple cow if it were
now before ...
... second furniture mart. An entire block was cordoned off for the festivities that
began with prayers by Protestant, Catholic and Spanish clerics . . . Making one of
his rare speaking appearances, will-o-the- wispish Max Stanford of New ...
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Men Astutely Trained: A History of
the Jesuits in
the ...
Effective specialization might come through training and service within the
Catholic enclave. This, Fitzpatrick hoped, would inhibit the elitism and will-o'-the-
wispish formalism of secular science: Work in a non-Catholic university gives a
man a ...
And similarly of his friend, Mrs. Taylor, “She was a will-o'-the-wispish iridescence
of a creature ; meaning nothing bad either” 3 and again of Mill himself, “His talk is
sawdustish, like ale when there is no wine to be had.” Such criticisms, some ...
9
New Chronicles of Rebecca
Ordinarily that will-o'-the-wispish little person could be seen, heard, or felt
wherever she was. "The village must be abed, I guess," mused Abijah, as he
neared the Robinsons' yellow cottage, where all the blinds were closed and no
sign of life ...
Kate Douglas Wiggin, 2007
'Mo, those immigrants would never find a girl in a place like Quinto. The country
girls never even touch a southerner, never mind a Negro.' Morris stared. In the
flickering light of the TV there was something fearfully will-o'-the-wispish about
her.
