Notes and Queries, 120. kötetOxford University Press, 1909 |
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... century . I have not the least doubt that Cordiner is . right in attributing the name " Bombay duck to sailors , to whom we are indebted for not a few facetiæ in nomenclature . " " I feel doubtful , however , regarding the morning I. 10 ...
... century . I have not the least doubt that Cordiner is . right in attributing the name " Bombay duck to sailors , to whom we are indebted for not a few facetiæ in nomenclature . " " I feel doubtful , however , regarding the morning I. 10 ...
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... century slang meant picking pockets . Com- Diving hooks .- " Diving " in eighteenth- twentieth - century equivalent pare the dipping . " Drawboys . - This was a commercial term for what are now called " ' leading articles . " These are ...
... century slang meant picking pockets . Com- Diving hooks .- " Diving " in eighteenth- twentieth - century equivalent pare the dipping . " Drawboys . - This was a commercial term for what are now called " ' leading articles . " These are ...
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... century must be due to a mistake ; probably the seventeenth century is meant . In 1864 it was called the comet - game , or manille . See also Manille ' in ' N.E.D. ' The quotation from Byron is duly given in N.E.D. ' s.v. 6 Comet ...
... century must be due to a mistake ; probably the seventeenth century is meant . In 1864 it was called the comet - game , or manille . See also Manille ' in ' N.E.D. ' The quotation from Byron is duly given in N.E.D. ' s.v. 6 Comet ...
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... century ago , a writer informs us that . Annales Ullonienses , ' MS . in the British Museum , No. 4795 of Mr ... centuries Edinburgh was known by the latter name , and as late as 1776 was so called throughout the Highlands . " Henry the ...
... century ago , a writer informs us that . Annales Ullonienses , ' MS . in the British Museum , No. 4795 of Mr ... centuries Edinburgh was known by the latter name , and as late as 1776 was so called throughout the Highlands . " Henry the ...
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... century . It is an advantage to possess in moderate compass information which in a few years it would be difficult to obtain without much toilsome research , and which is now presented to the reader in a modest and attractive form . The ...
... century . It is an advantage to possess in moderate compass information which in a few years it would be difficult to obtain without much toilsome research , and which is now presented to the reader in a modest and attractive form . The ...
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