beamish

How To Use beamish In A Sentence

• The founder and president of the organization from 1918 to 1948 was the above-mentioned Henry Hamilton Beamish.
• The carapace of panto jollity is slightly too beamish and loud, and he isn't really listening. Times, Sunday Times
• Directed by Bob Clark (this is great enough to forgive him for Porky's), and written and wonderfully narrated by humorist Jean Shepherd, the film tracks the misadventures of Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), a beamish lad in the 1940s who wants nothing else for Christmas but a Red Ryder BB gun. — Dean Maurer Tonight's TV Hot List: Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
• If, however, you want a real taste of harsh life in rural Britain, head off to Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum, which faithfully recreates the North East in the early 1800s.
• He is one of those beamish young men of whom England and the U. S. were so full in the early, hearty days of the English Speaking Union.
• John Skookum says: beamish: Normally, we use ‘lately’ for that sensenow. The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine
• Where else can the voter see the uncertain candidate of the early evening, the beamish victor of midnight, the sour loser of the early morning facing the ordeal by camera with his character showing?
• But just as she whirled past, Mary saw them, and leaned back to wave her hand and smile her "beamish" smile at the unwitting discoverers of her secret. Betty Wales Senior
• Herb Spencer says: beamish: Originally ‘late’ meant ‘slow’, from which it came to mean ‘after the appropriate time’ (which it mostly means now, of course). The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine
• Thanks, beamish, for both understanding and answering my question. The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine