Fifty Celebrated Authors--Who Are They?
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Title
Fifty Celebrated Authors--Who Are They?
Subject
Literature
Creator
[Unknown]
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
April 1877
Contributor
Josh Dobbs, Jenna Zan
Rights
Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Joke
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.6 (April 1877), p.8
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
1. What a rough man said to his son when he wanted him to eat his food properly.
2. A lion's house dug in the side of a hill where there is no water.
3. A good many pilgrims and flatterers have knelt low to kiss him.
4. Makes and mends for first-class customers.
5. Represents the dwellings of civilized countries.
6. Greater than many, and less than most.
7. Can be worn on the head.
8. One name that means such fiery things, I can't describe their pains and stings.
9. Belongs to a monastery.
10. Not one of the four points of the compass, but inclining towards one of them.
11. Is what an oyster heap is like to be.
12. Is a chain of hills containing a dark treasure.
13. Always usefull you see, but between you and me he never was much of a fish.
14. Humpbacked but not deformed.
15. An American manufacturing town.
16. An infernal pain.
17. The value of a word.
18. A ten-footer whose name begins with fifty.
19. Brighter and smarter than the other one.
20. A worker in the precious metals.
21. A very vital part of the body.
22. A ladies garment.
23. A small talk and a heavy weight.
24. Comes from an unlearned pig.
25. A prefix and a disease.
26. A disagreeable fellow to have on one's foot.
27. A sick place of worship.
29. A mean dog it is.
29. An official dreaded by the students of English universities.
30. His middle name is suggestive of an Indian or a Hottentot.
31. A manufactured metal.
32. A game and a name of the human species.
33. An answer to "which is the greatest poet, William Shakespeare or Martin F. Tupper?"
34. Meat, what are you doing?
35. It is very fast indeed.
36. A barrier built of an edible.
37. To agitate a weapon.
38. Red as an apple, black as night, a heavenly sign or a perfect fright.
39. A domestic worker.
40. Pack away closely, never scatter, and by so doing you'll get at her.
41. A slang exclamation.
42. A young domestic animal.
43. One that is more than a sandy shore.
44. A fraction in American currency and the prevailing fashion.
45. Mamma is in perfect health, my child, and thus he named a poet mild.
46. A girl's name and male relation.
47. Take a heavy field gun, nothing loath, and in a trice you'll have them both.
48. Put an edible grain 'twixt an ant and a bee, and a much beloved poet you'll speedily see.
49. A common domestic animal and what she can do.
50. Each human head in time, 'tis said, will turn to him though he is dead.
2. A lion's house dug in the side of a hill where there is no water.
3. A good many pilgrims and flatterers have knelt low to kiss him.
4. Makes and mends for first-class customers.
5. Represents the dwellings of civilized countries.
6. Greater than many, and less than most.
7. Can be worn on the head.
8. One name that means such fiery things, I can't describe their pains and stings.
9. Belongs to a monastery.
10. Not one of the four points of the compass, but inclining towards one of them.
11. Is what an oyster heap is like to be.
12. Is a chain of hills containing a dark treasure.
13. Always usefull you see, but between you and me he never was much of a fish.
14. Humpbacked but not deformed.
15. An American manufacturing town.
16. An infernal pain.
17. The value of a word.
18. A ten-footer whose name begins with fifty.
19. Brighter and smarter than the other one.
20. A worker in the precious metals.
21. A very vital part of the body.
22. A ladies garment.
23. A small talk and a heavy weight.
24. Comes from an unlearned pig.
25. A prefix and a disease.
26. A disagreeable fellow to have on one's foot.
27. A sick place of worship.
29. A mean dog it is.
29. An official dreaded by the students of English universities.
30. His middle name is suggestive of an Indian or a Hottentot.
31. A manufactured metal.
32. A game and a name of the human species.
33. An answer to "which is the greatest poet, William Shakespeare or Martin F. Tupper?"
34. Meat, what are you doing?
35. It is very fast indeed.
36. A barrier built of an edible.
37. To agitate a weapon.
38. Red as an apple, black as night, a heavenly sign or a perfect fright.
39. A domestic worker.
40. Pack away closely, never scatter, and by so doing you'll get at her.
41. A slang exclamation.
42. A young domestic animal.
43. One that is more than a sandy shore.
44. A fraction in American currency and the prevailing fashion.
45. Mamma is in perfect health, my child, and thus he named a poet mild.
46. A girl's name and male relation.
47. Take a heavy field gun, nothing loath, and in a trice you'll have them both.
48. Put an edible grain 'twixt an ant and a bee, and a much beloved poet you'll speedily see.
49. A common domestic animal and what she can do.
50. Each human head in time, 'tis said, will turn to him though he is dead.