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Found inside – Page 337strain strange stranger straps straw streak stream street strength strevgthen stretch stride. the straight and narrow morally correct behaviour. Found inside – Page 223“Humours,” The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, ed. Christopher Baldick (Oxford University Press, 1996), Oxford Reference Online, ... Found inside – Page 255The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition. Dalferth, ingolf, 1988. Theology and Philosophy. Found insideStrange but True Richard Smyth. 8 9 The Lord Chancellor has sat upon a ... Even the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography lists him as a 'landowner and ... Found inside – Page 373STRANGE (the) adventures of Eric Blackburn. By Harry Collingwood [William J. C. Lancaster]. 8vo. London, 1922 STRANGE (the) adventures of Roger Williams ... A dictionary of English's 3500 most interesting and/or beautiful words. Many are obscure words -- this book is not useful for foreigners learning English, but best enjoyed by fluent or native speakers. Found inside – Page 115The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Barenboim, Daniel. 2001. Love, the Hard Way. In these stories stuff just happens. Found insideIn the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language estrangement has nine entries: to remove something from its familiar place; to make someone a stranger to a ... Found inside – Page 2004Kaye Bagshaw, in Oxford dictionary ofnational biography (2004), online edition,May 2006. 32. See Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the astrolabe (2002), ... Found inside – Page 222An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil Anthony Knivet Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá ... Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press ... Found inside – Page 313266 the Spanish word for “ pelican , " alcatraz : In addition to the Arabic al - gattās , the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) suggests a possible ... Found inside – Page 212Cross , F.L. and E.A. Livingstone ( eds ) , Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church , Oxford , Second edition , 1974 ; reprinted 1984 . Found inside... 1984) Owen, S., Restoration Theatre and Crisis (Oxford, 1996) Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979 edn) Pain, N., 'Who killed Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey? Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words. Found inside – Page 278For an accessible reprint, see The First English Dictionary of Slang, ed. John Simpson (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2010). 2. Anonymous, A New Canting ... Found inside – Page 447Oxford Dictionary ofNational Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure . . . . Edited by Joseph Jacobs. Found inside – Page 292Chapter 1 Voyaging in Strange Seas 1. Elizabeth Knowles, ed., Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 7th edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 574. 2. Found inside – Page 231A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ann Arbor: University of ... Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1987. Found inside – Page 1393 (unbekannt) strange fremd-, Fremd-: Narbeiter der, Narbeiterin die (veralt., schweiz.) foreign worker; Nartig Adj. strange Fremde1 der/die adj. Dekl. Found inside – Page 780I I All appeared new , and strange at first , inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful . I was a little stranger , which at my entrance into the ... Found inside – Page 418Niels Bohr 1885–1962 Danish physicist 'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. Lord Byron 1788–1824 English poet What I ... Found inside – Page 28Working from dictionary definitions, especially those from the supposedly authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, mimics some of the positivist tendencies ... Found insideOxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn., January 2008. Grayson, Richard. 'The British government and the Channel ... Found inside"The Bondboy" by George W. Ogden. Found inside – Page 261According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “impresario,” derived from the Italian impresa,or “undertaking,”as in a business enterprise,means “one who ... Found inside – Page 4483A New and Original Work Presenting for Convenient Reference the Orthography, Pronuciation, Meaning, Use, Origin and Development of Every Word in the English Language... Robert Hunter, Charles Morris. strange - strap 4483 strānġe , v.1 ... Found inside – Page 255The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry Chris Jones ... Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, 4th edn. Found inside – Page 327In truth; warfare TRUTH is stranger than fiction Similar to FACT is stranger than fiction. D 1823 BYRON Don Juan XIV. ci. Truth is always strange, ... Found insideThe Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology links it to the Old English word beór, and says it's from the Old High German bior, which gave the modern Dutch ... Found inside – Page 1425origin C15: of unknown origin. strange adj. 1 unusual or surprising. slightly or undefinably unwell or ill at ease. 2 not previously visited, seen, ... Found insideTruth is stranger than fiction. implying that no invention can be as remarkable as what may actually happen; English proverb, early 19th century, ... Found inside – Page 12... English Dictionary, and its title page (in the first volume in 1888) defined its newness: it was a dictionary based 12 fresh strange music. Found insideThe Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness and genius, and the incredible obsessions of two men at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary and literary history. Found inside – Page 1574Early bearers : Ireland : Thomas le Straunge , captain of Athloon , 1558 in Fiants Mary $ 222 ( Athloon , Westmeath ) ; Thomas Le Strange , sheriff of ... Found inside – Page 380New York : Oxford University Press . Moss , H. B. , et al . 1990. ... New Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles . 1921–1933 . Found inside – Page 4483strange - strap 4483 onth . strānge , v.i. & ( STRANGE , a . ) A. Transitive : 1. To alienate , to estrange . 2. To change . ( Gower : C. A. , il . ) B. Intransitive : 1. To wonder ; to be astonished . " Impleties , which we need not strange at - Glan sill ... Found inside – Page 57... associated with Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). This Dictionary features literally in Twain's text, in the “Unabridged ... Found inside – Page 248(New York: Putnam's, 1906); see also Ian Chilvers, Harold Osborne, and Dennis Farr, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ... Found insidestrange I -r 1-stad) strend5 / strend5 эш / -ost sp strange397, straunge" / stranger" / strangest" rh change Нат 3.2.210, LLL 5.2.210. S 76.4, 89.8, 93.8, ... Found insideElizabeth Knowles, ed., Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations 30 31 (Oxford, 2007), p. 214. Jezer, Abbie Hoffman, p. 105. Found inside – Page 8The embarrassment of riches. title of comedy (1726) Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol) 1903-86 American teacher 3 Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the ... 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