Crotchet

Crotchet, i was quoting someone else… and then commenting…

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Friar-minors, who are semibreves of bulls; the smoked-herring tribe of Minim Friars; then the Crotchet Friars.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Friar-minors, who are semibreves of bulls; the smoked-herring tribe of Minim Friars; then the Crotchet Friars.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

It reminded me that I wasn't quite cut off; I found I was muttering "Wisconsin", then humming it shakily to the tune of "My bonnie is over the ocean", and on the spur of the moment I dug out my cypher key - Crotchet Castle, the edition of 1831, if you're interested - and began to write Broadfoot a note of all that I'd heard on Maian Mir.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Had I fallen asleep over Crotchet Castle and dreamed it all - my balcony acrobatics, Mangla and Jawaheer and the dazzling spectacle of the durbar room, the drunken ecstatic coupling with Jeendan, the horror of the descending stone, the furious bloody scramble in which five lives were snuffed out in a bare minute, this incredible tartan Nemesis with his Khyber knife and Yankee twang,22 eyeing me bleakly as I punished his malt?

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

It reminded me that I wasn't quite cut off; I found I was muttering "Wisconsin", then humming it shakily to the tune of "My bonnie is over the ocean", and on the spur of the moment I dug out my cypher key — Crotchet Castle, the edition of 1831, if you're interested — and began to write Broadfoot a note of all that I'd heard on Maian Mir.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Had I fallen asleep over Crotchet Castle and dreamed it all — my balcony acrobatics, Mangla and Jawaheer and the dazzling spectacle of the durbar room, the drunken ecstatic coupling with Jeendan, the horror of the descending stone, the furious bloody scramble in which five lives were snuffed out in a bare minute, this incredible tartan Nemesis with his Khyber knife and Yankee twang,22 eyeing me bleakly as I punished his malt?

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

_Crotchet_, and may perhaps be assumed upon other Occasions by future

An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

The cellar of the novel contains even more than the "thousand dozen of wine" enshrined by that of Crotchet Castle, but no intelligent possessor of it, any more than Mr. Crotchet himself, would dream of restricting it to one kind of vintage.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

_Headlong Hall_ and _Nightmare Abbey, Melincourt_ and _Crotchet Castle_ (1831), as well as _Gryll Grange_ itself, all have the uniform, though by no means monotonous, canvas of a party of guests assembled at a country-house and consisting of a number of "originals," with one or more common-sense but by no means commonplace characters to serve as contrast.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889