Yes NSTN, you got this one- wick meaning alive in the Yorkshire dialect people use in the book- do people still use that word?
Ooh excellent!'I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,' she mused. 'Nobody likes you. People run away and scream out: 'Oh! What a horrid rat!'
Quote from: jane on 27 February, 2011, 07:46:09 pmYes NSTN, you got this one- wick meaning alive in the Yorkshire dialect people use in the book- do people still use that word?Only time I ever heard it was in the expressions 'As wick as an eel', or 'I never heard in all my wick'.
Really? That's interesting.
It was a big pin, too strongly sprung for little hands to open
Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 27 February, 2011, 07:50:54 pmOoh excellent!'I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,' she mused. 'Nobody likes you. People run away and scream out: 'Oh! What a horrid rat!'My source (The Girl) says "A Little Princess", by the same Frances Hodgson Burnett. It seems her education wasn't a complete waste of time. My niece appears on the cover of a recent adaptation.
"I'm versatile!" said Charlotte."Does that mean full of eggs?"
It doesn’t matter where you start. Just start.
Quote from: clarion on 27 February, 2011, 08:51:51 pmReally? That's interesting. Aye. I think it's the Stepping Stone Classics adaptation.Anyway, seeing as The Girl has been answering for me, she suggests:QuoteIt was a big pin, too strongly sprung for little hands to open
"Once upon a time...There was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites. One day he was in a very good humour, for he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness."
OK, I'll set another one.She flashed her horrible, wicked eyes upon me and said 'Victory.' 'Yes,' said I, 'Victory, but not yours.' Then I spoke the Deplorable Word.(currently reading this one to Miss Z)
Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
Charlotte's Secrit Bunker Web?
'He was father,' said xxxx.Nobody said anything for a minute, and then yyyy, looking at the paper, said, 'So that was what they called it. Well it's Kanchenjunga now. It's no good changing it now we've climbed it.'