Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Jarring; reverberating.

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Examples

  • After he went away my cousin Jarry came to me and said, "Sister, I don't think it right that you should always tell everything to our people."

    Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1883

  • I had given up my position as interpreter to my cousin Jarry, because he was almost blind.

    Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1883

  • After the agent was discharged, Mr. Parrish came to take care of my people, and then my poor cousin Jarry was taken sick with sore eyes, and my brother Natchez sent him to San Francisco, to be under a doctor's care.

    Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1883

  • Sarah, we know that Jarry is in with the agent, and it is no use for us to ask him or the mail-carrier, who have everything they want and enough to eat, and Reinhard does not care whether we get anything or not.

    Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims 1883

  • Lear’s limericks are a catalogue of thumpings, beatings, smashings, knockings-about, and shuttings-in-boxes, accompanied by plenty of screaming; Père Ubu, in Jarry’s Ubu Roi, slobberingly consigns his enemies to the Debraining Machine; Lucky in Waiting for Godot is hauled about on an Abu Ghraib – style leash.

    The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer 2010

  • Lear’s limericks are a catalogue of thumpings, beatings, smashings, knockings-about, and shuttings-in-boxes, accompanied by plenty of screaming; Père Ubu, in Jarry’s Ubu Roi, slobberingly consigns his enemies to the Debraining Machine; Lucky in Waiting for Godot is hauled about on an Abu Ghraib – style leash.

    The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer 2010

  • The parc has been home to the Montreal Expos who played their last game their on September 25, 1976, one learns, and after the Pope's visit it was re-named for him, but the name didn't stick, and by 1987 it was called Jarry again.

    parc jarry, post storm Lemon Hound 2008

  • The parc has been home to the Montreal Expos who played their last game their on September 25, 1976, one learns, and after the Pope's visit it was re-named for him, but the name didn't stick, and by 1987 it was called Jarry again.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Before we knew each other, two of our heroes were Alfred Jarry and P J Proby.

    Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009

  • Alfred Jarry has a lot to answer for: his Ubu Roi (1896) ushered in a fleet of absurdist dramas, beginning with Ionesco and ending (I hope) with the Goons.

    The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012

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