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barley-sugar
adj 2
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3ADJ.
most
BARLEY-SUGAR + NOUN
dog, painters
PREP.
after
Definitions
adj
1
Very sweet-natured or saccharine; harmless.
c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife I shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite your curiosity, and to delay gratifying it. I am a sweet chicken ! ! ! You ought to think me the most barley-sugar daughter in the creation!
In the apartment of the Abate a few pictures remain, but none of first order : one or two Carlo Dolces served to strengthen our opinion of his being one of the most barley-sugar painters of the Italian schools.
2
Twisted helically.
Chair-backs were very straight and no time was wasted on carving. This severe discipline prepared English craftsmen for their great period. After a slight relapse under Charles II into rather frivolous forms — very barley-sugar, but discreet […]
Suppose that, initially, the barley-sugar aerials are twisted in such a sense that the polar diagram of each has its maximum north of the zenith.
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c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife I shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite yo
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In the apartment of the Abate a few pictures remain, but none of first order : one or two Carlo Dolces served to strengthen our opinion of his being one of the most barley-sugar painters of the Italia
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Well, the little dog barked on furiously, that is for a barley-sugar dog; and, after rolling themselves in the grass to get rid of the load of jam and cream on their clothes, they managed to get up an
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