The Bradys and Governor Gum; Or, Huinting the King of the Highbinders
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
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Author : Francis Worcester Doughty
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Page : 29 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Catherine Mulholland
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2002-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520234666
Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of Southern California's history. In the first full-length biography of the water and civil engineer, his granddaughter provides insights into the triumphant completion of the Owens Valley Aqueduct and the San Francisquito Dam tragedy that ended his career. Archival photos. 7 maps.
Author : John Ayto
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
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Slang is language with its sleeves rolled up, colorful, pointed, brash, bristling with humor and sometimes with hostility. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, John Ayto has brought together over 10,000 slang words and phrases common to 20th-century English, to provide a comprehensive and highly engaging guide to the most outspoken corner of our language. Unlike most such dictionaries, this volume is organized thematically, with slang words gathered under such headings as "the body and its functions" or "sustenance and intoxication." Within each section, the words are listed chronologically, starting with the century's earliest words and phrases and progressing right through to the present day, thus illuminating the development of slang and colloquial language over the last hundred years. Word origins and other interesting features of usage are given wherever possible, as are illustrative quotations from a wide range of authors. A comprehensive A Z index lists all words included in the dictionary, so you can find a particular word quickly. From "five-finger discount" to "forty-rod whiskey," here is an authoritative and up-to-date record of slang throughout the English-speaking world.
Author : John Ayto
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780198610526
A dictionary of modern slang draws on the resources of the "Oxford English Dictionary" to cover over five thousand slang words and phrases from throughout the English-speaking world.
Author : P. Wodehouse
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0369401360
The Code of the Woosters is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 7 October 1938, in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It was serialised in The Saturday Evening Post (US) from 16 July to 3 September 1938 and in the London Daily Mail from 14 September to 6 October 1938. The Code of the Woosters is the third full-length novel to feature two of Wodehouse's best-known creations, Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. It introduces Sir Watkyn Bassett, the owner of a country house called Totleigh Towers where the story takes place, and his intimidating friend Roderick Spode. It is also a sequel to Right Ho, Jeeves, continuing the story of Bertie's newt-fancying friend Gussie Fink-Nottle and Gussie's droopy and overly sentimental fiancée, Madeline Bassett. Bertie and Jeeves return to Totleigh Towers in a later novel, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.
Author : Frank H. Vizetelly
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 1923
Category : English language
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Motion pictures
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Author : James Miller Guinn
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Page : 792 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 1906
Category : California
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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