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"-ish" Quotes from Famous Books

... means," he said. He was on jolly-good-fellow-ish terms with the dead-and-gone grocer's son already, and had the tone of a man who had been his friend and boon companion. "Mat Haygarth is our man. But how are we to ferret out his doings in London? A man who was born in 1720 is rather a ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... salt water toward the rising sun, the great Megis (seashell) showed itself above the surface of the great water and the rays of the sun for a long time period were reflected from its glossy back. It gave warmth and light to the An-ish-in-aub-ag (red race). All at once it sank into the deep, and for a time our ancestors were not blessed with its light. It rose to the surface and appeared again on the great river which drains the waters of the Great Lakes, and again for a long time it gave ...

— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... the statement that "one or more syllables" are taken from these words to form Pilape is inaccurate and misleading. It might with as much truth be said that the English word boyhood is formed from selected syllables of boy-ish and man-hood; or that purity 'compounds together in an artificial manner' fractions ...

— The Composition of Indian Geographical Names - Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages • J. Hammond Trumbull