Book Description
A celebration of unknown and little-known words and phrases once incommon use all over...
Author : W. R. Runyan
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1616081236
A celebration of unknown and little-known words and phrases once incommon use all over...
Author : Nancy S. Hill
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1414320140
Presents fun facts and trivia including how a pearl forms and the origin of safety glass, connecting them to Christian life using passages from the Bible.
Author : W. R. Runyan
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN :
As times change so do the things we use and what we call them. W.R. Runyan has compiled a fascinating collection of words and phrases that, once common everywhere in America, are little known today. This book is a celebration of our linguistic past that will be a treat from word lovers everywhere. Do you know any of these: Snaffle, Steelie, Gully Washer, Cabriolet, Calk, Hardpan, Carbuncle, Pie Bird, Fid, or Hame? Did you know that a Horse Apple is actually an orange? Or that Rolley Holley is a marble game? With over one hundred illustrations, this is a book that will take you on a walk back in time and give you a chance to hear from generations past?in their own voice, with their own words.
Author : Aquilla Webb
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Homiletical illustrations
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Author : John Gallishaw
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Short stories
ISBN :
"... A Case Book [to] serve as a basic Handbook for writers"--Foreword (p. v).
Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 2050 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 1926
Category : American poetry
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Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Business education
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 1897
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Page : 2428 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Page : 717 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 1871
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