How To Use Offing In A Sentence
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The rogues ransack the place in search of a treasure map, offing the men and carting the women, including feisty Violet Miranda, onto a ship run by the dastardly but suave Captain Calico Jack.
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It was at one of those catatonic evenings when a dramatic turnaround was in the offing.
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It took wise and far-seeing leaders to discern that major events were in the offing, requiring novel thinking.
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While others were scoffing at the notion of ebonics, I was lapping up inner city slang: that beautiful, musical, profane prose.
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Also, Mousavi has written a letter (in Farsi) to the Iranian security council saying that personnel from the Ahmadinejad-loyalist Basij militia are doffing their uniforms and attacking innocent people in the streets.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
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Being something of a conspiracy buff, I believe this deal has been in the offing for quite some time.
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Usually, what local parties do when certain defeat is in the offing is find some young up and comer and promise him or her the moon down the road in exchange for going down with the ship this time out.
Lance Mannion:
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But they gave the trolls some food for thought by heading out to a restaurant and posting images of themselves scoffing burgers and macaroni cheese.
The Sun
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there's dirty weather in the offing
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Her babysitter was slaughtered but Rachel managed to escape - though not before offing Bateman with an ice pick!
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There's a promotion in the offing so you make it clear you want to apply.
The Sun
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The economic downturn has cast a pall over CEO compensation, but that doesn't mean that CEO pay cuts or rollbacks are in the offing.
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` little, small 'and English peg (Anglo-Indian slang since at least 1864 for a drink, especially of brandy and soda water); and shroffage ` commission charged for shroffing' combines shroff (an adaptation of Hindi saraf ` banker, money-lender, 'a word borrowed from Arabic) and the English suffix - age.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
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He believed that independence was the first duty of a literary man, and that true dignity consists in diligent labor rather than in indolent railing at fate and the scoffings of "uncomprehended" genius.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
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Scoffing at the suggestion that an undertaker is a "professional man," Chambers said any good plumber could learn how to embalm in sixty days.
The Undertaker's Racket
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Characters do double duty with the doffing of a hat.
Regina Weinreich: Classical Theatre of Harlem's Henry V: I Love It When You Speak French
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Instead we went to a frat party, and honestly, I'm pretty sure that offing ourselves would have almost been better.
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He was to live, it appeared, abominably worried, he was to live consciously rueful, he was to live perhaps even what a scoffing world would call abjectly exposed; but at least he was to live saved.
The Finer Grain
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His problem now is that, with an election in the offing, his political opponents will look for every opportunity to wrong-foot him and that is sad for the country.
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And here I am scoffing grapefruit, kiwi fruit, and granadilla in one sitting, plus muesli and yoghurt for breakfast - and I can't get enough of it.
The Orange Problem
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In speaking to them, however, they always used the most abject language, and the most humble tone and posture – "Please your honour, – and please your honour's honour," they knew must be repeated as a charm at the beginning and end of every equivocating, exculpatory, or supplicatory sentence – and they were much more alert in doffing their caps to these new men, than to those of what they call good old families.
Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale
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“Mony thanks to ye,” he said, scoffingly, “for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi’ that lunt, it’s be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.”
The Black Dwarf
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With an election in the offing, the prime minister is keen to maintain his popularity.
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There's a promotion in the offing so you make it clear you want to apply.
The Sun
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_Sparks_, Mrs. _Woffington_, the inimitable Mrs. _Fitz-Henry_, and several others, of either Sex.
An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland
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Usually when a great philosopher, such as Kant, overreaches himself, or seems to do so, we can suspect that there is something true in the offing.
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“And what will ye do, if I carena to thraw the keys, or draw the bolts, or open the grate to sic a clamjamfrie?” said the old dame, scoffingly.
The Black Dwarf
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At any rate, I now find myself in the position of being much like my friend, correcting people and scoffing at them behind their back.
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Out of the corner of my eye I noted Patterson scoffing in disbelief.
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But they gave the trolls some food for thought by heading out to a restaurant and posting images of themselves scoffing burgers and macaroni cheese.
The Sun
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If the locals aren't scoffing ripe fruit and fresh pasta from the table they are lying flat out on it, getting a massage.
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There is a very real danger that, with an election in the offing, he may be swayed by those who shout the loudest.
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A police officer's activity of donning and doffing protective equipment constitutes an integral and indispensable part of officer's principal activities; it is not preliminary or postliminary within meaning of Portal-to-Portal Act, as required to support officer's claim for compensation for such activity.
Wage Law
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In fact his increasingly strident denials that a deal is in the offing suggest that the prospect is alarming voters, as it should.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now there appears to be a savage credit crunch in the offing, and nobody seems to even notice.
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The name suggests something eldritch is in the offing.
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Investors took that as a hint that a downgrade to junk status may be in the offing.
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Of course, doffing my hobnailed leather brogues for a bit of fresh air in the middle of the aerodrome probably didn't endear me to the locals.
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Fearless of scoffing, and of the ostent, let us take our stand, our ground, and never desert it, to confront the growing excess and arrogance of realism.
Democratic Vistas: Paras. 90–119. Collect
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The party faithful admired him, like tenants doffing hats to their feudal lord, but I am very confident that no one else ever found his words persuasive.
Stromata Blog:
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Their recovery was not reflected in the scoreline until the final ten minutes but it soon was evident that a comeback was in the offing.
Times, Sunday Times
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By comparison, the Miami series suffers from hambone David Caruso's showboating - the shameless way he slips into action hero poses, doffing his sunglasses to brush aside a pesky forelock when jumping from a car.
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There's a promotion in the offing so you make it clear you want to apply.
The Sun
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In fact, the urge had dissipated somewhat, now that the promise of a chance at R 'shiel was in the offing.
TREASON KEEP
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Thanks Carol for the info, we are not big movie goers but occassionally one we want to see is only on at the local art house as was 9/11 until last week ... audience was older (50-60-70) than I would hope to have seen and the comments were about divided afterwards in scoffing at it as an orchestrated sound bite political commercial or saying I told you so, now it all makes sense ....
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[FOOTNOTE 87: spavined crowbait -- a lame, emaciated horse (from spavin, an inflammation of the tarsal or ankle joint of a horse, causing lameness, and an appearance that causes carrion birds to think a meal is in the offing)] "A very sad --" began Judge Menefee, but his remark was curtailed by a higher authority.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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There really is no reason why these two shouldn't have started boffing as soon as they met.
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The rodent squeezed into this bird feeder but after scoffing the lot was too fat to get out.
The Sun
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Do you get the following after scoffing certain foods?
The Sun
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Traders thought a sweetened takeover offer might be in the offing, although probably not today.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the more famous pictures is a Peg Woffington by Hogarth, not here "dallying and dangerous," but demure as a nun; also the "Modern Midnight Conversation" from the same hand; three or four bewitching Romneys; a room full of beauties of the
Highways & Byways in Sussex
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The effort fell short of the necessary two-thirds vote, and another attempt is in the offing for next year.
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His attorney, Susan Hoffinger , told State Supreme Court Judge Rena Uviller , that the cutting of the standpipe was "accidental" and was a "red herring.
Contractors Claim 'Scapegoating'
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Holly steals the first act, quickly doffing her wedding dress into a comely miniskirt.
James Scarborough: Summer of Love, Musical Theatre West
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Just before sunrise scores of little fishing-boats with bamboo masts and huge triangular mat-sails slip out of the creeks before the fresh land-wind, which lasts just long enough to carry them to the fishing-ground in the offing, and about four o'clock in the afternoon a sea-breeze springs up, and back they all come, generally laden with splendid fish.
Dutch Life in Town and Country
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The beast was sozzled after scoffing fermented fruit.
The Sun
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In fact his increasingly strident denials that a deal is in the offing suggest that the prospect is alarming voters, as it should.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did she just think her trousers had shrunk, or she had been scoffing too many army rations?
Times, Sunday Times
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His decision to accept the premiership was viewed by his detractors as acknowledgement that a national cabinet post was not in the offing for him.
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Helena's beer adds an aggressive malty note to her blinis which, as we're more likely to be scoffing them with wine than vodka in this country, is not an ideal match with pre-dinner drinks.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Next thing we know, he has been scoffing spaghetti carbonara at an Italian eatery.
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With the serial makers trying all the tricks in their hats to impress the audience, already inundated with tear-jerkers, more encounters like this could be in the offing.
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Golf courses, desert safaris and medical tourism (Palmyra is rich in sulphurous water) and marinas are all in the offing.
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Hrdy shows that neonaticide is sometimes to the benefit of the mother, in which case she has no qualms about offing the kid.
Bell curves
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Perhaps a companion volume on dynamic headspace is in the offing?
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And of course the fact that there are elections in the offing would have absolutely nothing to do with the timing of Michael's pronouncements that the group is a bunch of murderers, gangsters, cut-throats and crooks.
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Perhaps a companion volume on dynamic headspace is in the offing?
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With the serial makers trying all the tricks in their hats to impress the audience, already inundated with tear-jerkers, more encounters like this could be in the offing.
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Meanwhile, there is a serial killer who is offing people left and right in the ‘hood.
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_in ano_, or some such other secret disease, as the common conuersant can hardly discouer, and the Phisition either not speedily heale, or not honestly bewray? of which infirmities the scoffing _Pasquil_ wrote, _Vleus vesicae renum dolor in peno scirrus_.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Young men in baseball caps and trainers are offered lessons in the wearing of trilbies and fedoras, and many people volunteer for ‘hat doffing’ classes, led by the splendidly monikered, and splendidly bearded, Torquil Arbuthnot.
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If I was a compact little person and did not fear knocking over coffee mugs with my pendulous boobs, I might enjoy doffing my clothing while going about my day.
Good Girls (Don’t) Wear Underpants | Her Bad Mother
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That was in the offing prior to that win.
The Sun
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Wearing anything from period costume to Lycra leggings, the teams also have to perform tasks such as scoffing a piece of cake or bobbing an apple at various points.
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She isn't giving up without a fight; she's scoffing broccoli heads and noni juice and shark liver oil.
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Traders thought a sweetened takeover offer might be in the offing, although probably not today.
Times, Sunday Times
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there was a wedding in the offing
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That'll teach her for boffing a him in a swimming pool.
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Cary took him by the hand, and asked pardon of him for his scoffing, saying that he had that day played the best man of all of them; and Jack, who never bore malice, began laughing in his turn, and — “Oh, Mr. Cary, we have all known your pleasant ways, ever since you used to put drumble-drones into my desk to Bideford school.”
Westward Ho!
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The beast was sozzled after scoffing fermented fruit.
The Sun
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He warned that future action was in the offing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only now, in the rush of 'modern progress,' is the doffing of the hat taking the place of the 'kowtow'
Myths and Legends of China
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There was also the whole etiquette of uncovering your head in the presence of your betters and men doffing their hats to ladies and so forth.
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Doffing its panama hat to the likes of Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, poet Shukman's promising first volume of fiction features a cast of expat chancers looking for a second bite of the cherry in sundry banana republics.
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But I still detected some misgivings - and not only among the press corps scoffing moussaka between briefings.
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So it was not only the scoffing of infidels which spread the conviction that the religious life of France needed comprehensive reform.
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Her voluptuous face, raised as if at the approach of one she has been waiting for, is lit up under the shade of the flat Woffington hat by the reflected lights from her dress, a quilted rose-colored slip with lace over it, a black lace apron and mantilla, and a sacque of striped blue silk.
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I'm only responsible for scoffing the plain ones.
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I scoffed at the idea of such a thing when it first struck me, just as many of you are scoffing now.
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Do you get the following after scoffing certain foods?
The Sun
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For instance, the company may not be earning enough to pay off its debts, or there could be sizeable share dilution in the offing, or perhaps there's a chance the assets will suffer a big write-off.
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Air fares soar as Jet pilots, management stand ground production quotas unchanged, opting to take a cautious approach in a Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) Thursday decided to leave its production quotas unchanged, opting to take a cautious approach in a oil prices about where OPEC wants them and a modest economic upturn in the offing, the oil cartel isn't likely to tighten the taps when its leaders meet this week in Vienna.
WN.com - Articles related to Oil surges towards $75, eyes China, US data
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Thus thought Dwining, as, returned from his visit to Sir John Ramorny, he added the gold he had received for his various services to the mass of his treasure; and, having gloated over the whole for a minute or two, turned the key on his concealed treasure house, and walked forth on his visits to his patients, yielding the wall to every man whom he met and bowing and doffing his bonnet to the poorest burgher that owned a petty booth, nay, to the artificers who gained their precarious bread by the labour of their welked hands.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Peg Woffington, could carry the _Wedding Day_ over its sixth night; and the harassed author received 'not £50 from the House for it.'
Henry Fielding: a Memoir
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Helena's beer adds an aggressive malty note to her blinis which, as we're more likely to be scoffing them with wine than vodka in this country, is not an ideal match with pre-dinner drinks.
How to cook perfect blinis
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My point about a grand jury indictment is this at least forces Obama and Holder to present evidence to a neutral group of American citizens before offing the guy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen
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For his first solo album, he has lovingly crafted 11 homages, all doffing the cap to great soundtrack composers of the past.
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It's a musical that actually breaks new ground, whilst at the same time doffing its cap respectfully to the older establishment.
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Antoine, cheri, that picture looks a little cold to be doffing the frillies.
Accessorize to Live, Live to Accessorize: Stuff, and Where to Put It
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In recent issues, I have clung to my bearish outlook but gingerly hinted that a tilt to the bullish side of the ledger was in the offing.
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Because we draw our national leader from Parliament rather than electing him or her directly, Liberals and Tories are doffing their caps to Nick Clegg and David Cameron in the hope of office and sinecures, rather than scrutinising their policies, just as Labour MPs doffed theirs to Blair and Gordon Brown.
We need electoral reform, not this Liberal fudge
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Good morning," he said to bystanders, smiling and doffing his hat.
Abraham Lincoln rides to Washington, 150 years later
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Their guest made a loud scoffing noise and stood up, violently pushing back his chair so that it rucked up the carpet.
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And in fact, there's some exciting news in the offing, re: aiding bushfire victims.
Clone Wars 4 update
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The walls were hung with old theatre posters Mr. Garrick, Mr.. Woffington, Mr.. Siddons - Richard III: The Constant Couple; The Grecian Daughter, in cheap black print on old, creased paper, mounted on red board under glass in Hogarth frames.
Bottled Spider
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So he went into the vestiary where the garments were kept and doffing his dress donned a garb which converted him into a Darwaysh.
Arabian nights. English
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` ` Mony thanks to ye, 'he said, scoffingly, ` ` for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.' '
The Black Dwarf
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With more cohousing properties in the offing in multiple cities, the Bothell-based Cohousing Association of the United States is running bus tours in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle to school potential co-habitants or would-be cohousing group developers on what the lifestyle involves and how different communities operate.
Co-Housing Trend Hits Seattle « PubliCola
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There are, say diplomats, dozens of other media deals in the offing across the continent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unfortunate party members, staying in seedy bed-and-breakfasts on shoestring budgets, are reduced to scoffing free booze and vol-au-vents at corporate receptions.
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The rodent squeezed into this bird feeder but after scoffing the lot was too fat to get out.
The Sun
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Advertisements offing a reward must be an act of both sides'satisfaction.
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Her voluptuous face, raised as if at the approach of one she has been waiting for, is lit up under the shade of the flat Woffington hat by the reflected lights from her dress, a quilted rose-colored slip with lace over it, a black lace apron and mantilla, and a sacque of striped blue silk.
Archive 2010-04-01
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With an election in the offing, the prime minister is keen to maintain his popularity.
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Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field Exercise and Movements of His Majesty's Forces
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Mony thanks to ye," he said, scoffingly, "for collecting sae muckle winter eilding for us; but if ye step a foot nearer it wi 'that lunt, it's be the dearest step ye ever made in your days.
The Black Dwarf
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His decision to accept the premiership was viewed by his detractors as acknowledgement that a national cabinet post was not in the offing for him.
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Woffington is said to have been his only rival in this part.
The Beaux-Stratagem
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Schools were closed for the first time in 12 years in the Windy City, known for scoffing at the kind of wintery weather that cripples less hardy cities.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The intense reflection of offing brings multiple path interference into physical channel.
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It was also another case of cap-doffing to unelected 'eminences' whose support could prove politically useful to
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And of course the fact that there are elections in the offing would have absolutely nothing to do with the timing of Michael's pronouncements that the group is a bunch of murderers, gangsters, cut-throats and crooks.
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The ice in the offing was of the "hummocky" kind, and drifting rapidly about with the tides, leaving us a navigable channel varying in width from two miles to three or four hundred yards.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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More legal battles are in the offing.
Times, Sunday Times
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With such a matrimonial event in the offing, it got me thinking today about the numerous weddings I've been to over the last few years.
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Supposedly she was boffing him for four years.
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Prizes should be delivered to the TV director who cut to their box in time to catch him grinning like a loon, boffing a balloon about with his feet and hands.
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Woffington_, "between the finger and thumb of two rivers," and also upon the broad palm of the Delaware.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
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There's a promotion in the offing so you make it clear you want to apply.
The Sun
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It is not made clear just why Sebastian snaps to the degree he does, but he suddenly becomes a murderous, kill-crazed loony, offing his co-workers one by one.
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He applauded as if it had been the Woffington or any other fair game.
The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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O'Hara wouldn't wake, so I just lifted him on board like a sack, tossed in his cornet and my bombardon, tumbled in on top of them, and started to row for dear life towards the ship's light in the offing.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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Ask one of them of what religion he is, he scoffingly replies, a philosopher, a Galenist, an [6648] Averroist, and with Rabelais a physician, a peripatetic, an epicure.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Hammer House of Horror resident Simon Oakes tells Shock that new Quatermass and Captain Kronos pictures are definitely in the offing.
/Film UK - Britain’s Bigelow, Frankie Boyle Does Superheroes, Reel Music and More | /Film
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All of those effete young men flitting about in their blue waistcoats and yellow britches crying ‘woe is me’ before offing themselves?
How To Be Good « Tales from the Reading Room
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There is also an arrangement by means of which the reels can be lifted bodily in and out of the dye-vat for the purpose of taking on and off, "doffing," the hanks of yarn for the reels.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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When she's not boffing the mail boy in the photocopier room she's scheming to get him fired.
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On the story of him boffing his wife, he said ‘I was flattered, but it didn't happen.’
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It is learnt that more changes in the civil administration are also in the offing as part of the ongoing efforts to defuse the tense situation.
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Imagine if you will you were a government which was aware of a global pandemic flu in the offing.
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I've been hoping for a renaissance for the name Gamaliel, but so far none has been in the offing.
My mechanic Steve
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For this amateurish smacktalker to get mentioned as a potential replacement – without immediate scoffing from the White House – screams that things are going from incompetent to worse on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Think Progress » Fox’s Tony Snow responds to ThinkProgress commenters
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The practice of self-mummification, which is a form of suicide after all, had to be outlawed to prevent Buddhist priests from offing themselves this way.
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It seems that Jason is back from the dead and getting back in the saddle offing good looking, nubile co-eds and stupid adults.
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there was a ship in the offing
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It combines - appropriately in four letters - the notion of ripping, rooting, offing and torting in mellifluous onomatopoeia.
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One minute you're learning that Sir Issac Newton chuckled only once in his life (scoffing at Euclidean geometry) and that the term for such people who don't laugh is 'agelast'; the next that the apparently nonsensical elephant jokes that were popular in the Sixties are believed to be racist in origin; the next how Bertrand Russell put down a heckler during one of his lectures on logic.
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Their owners will be scoffing a soggy sandwich before hitting the road to the next meeting.
The Sun
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Titles of honour, salutations, and all similar things conducive to vanity, such as doffing the hat or "scraping with the leg", were to be avoided even in the presence of the king.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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There were no liveried footman doffing their hats and opening glass doors with gloved hands.
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Its swoon in after-hours trading suggests that more high-tech market jitters may be in the offing today, however.
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At midnight, the ships in the offing in Belfast Lough all sounded their foghorns... at once melancholic and festive as two ships duetted on an interval of a perfect fifth.
Virtue and venison
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When "Peg Woffington" first fell upon us, a dozen years ago or so,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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Somebody earned his way by offing one of the dismissible masses of which we are all a apart.
Ted Kennedy, dead at 77 | My[confined]Space
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I find not myself concerned in his ensuing talk, but only in one reflection on the words of the Scripture, and the repetition of his old, putid, and shameless calumny, p. 108, until we come to p. 126, where he arraigns an occasional discourse of mine about the necessity of holiness and good works; wherein he hath only filched out of the whole what he thought he could wrest unto his end, and scoffingly descant upon.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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A Communist push from the highlands to the sea to cut South Vietnam in half and isolate Saigon appeared in the offing.
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More legal battles are in the offing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Igor was busy most of the time scoffing a hamburger, which he propped up on the music stand before and after solos.
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Perhaps "erasing your bookmark" is yet another euphemism for "foffing off," and the commenter is actually posting in flagrante suffoco pullus.
Keeping Up Appearances: Filling the House, Clearing the Bike Lane
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There's a promotion in the offing so you make it clear you want to apply.
The Sun
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More downloadable widgets are in the offing; people with programming talents can build their own.
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They've split for good, apparently because neither of them could stop boffing anybody they clapped eyes on.
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Yet another genetically-modified crop is in the offing, and this time for controlling aflatoxin levels in groundnut, the country's largest produced oilseed.
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But there is a real life disaster movie in the offing - so we better start acting.
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I've had a number of attractive and nubile young companions, and I must say that thinking about it, I've never actually had any interest in boffing any of them.
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He warned that future action was in the offing.
Times, Sunday Times
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New copyright legislation is in the offing but it's a painfully slow process.
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He warned that future action was in the offing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you get the following after scoffing certain foods?
The Sun
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With an election in the offing, the prime minister is keen to maintain his popularity.
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the best way to prove your innocence of murder is by offing a bunch of law enforcement officers.
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Their owners will be scoffing a soggy sandwich before hitting the road to the next meeting.
The Sun
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He warned that future action was in the offing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Constable Kwesi Millington, the Taserman who seems to have more stories in his repertoire than Sheherezade, demonstrated yesterday how Dziekanski used it "combatively," prompting so many scoffing noises and derisive snorts from the audience that Thomas Braidwood had to call for order.
Archive 2009-03-01
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With an election in the offing, the prime minister is keen to maintain his popularity.
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But the A9 was choked with roadworks and elderly Germans in caravans, causing much crankiness and scoffing of chocolate digestives.
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I realized her precarious emotional state and immediately offered to go take care of the grisly task of offing her turkey.
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I'm all bows and blushing, fanning and doffing.
The Sun
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Since he'll probably inherit a big chunk of Castillo's surprisingly large estate, he may have half a dozen motives for offing his old man.
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Only, I must grant that herein they have had some that have gone before them, -- namely, the old scoffing heathens; for so doth Lucian, in his Philopatris [18], speak in imitation of a Christian by way of scorn, Lege, para tou Pneumatos dunamin tou logou labon; -- "Speak out now, receiving power or ability of speaking from the Spirit," or "by the Spirit.
Pneumatologia
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Not content with dressing up as a giant grain of sweetcorn to amuse chip-scoffing children, the celebrity chef has extracted £220m from the government to improve school meals in England.
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Times reporter John Broder, writing from Jasper, Ind., does open by quoting a politician who cites scripture in scoffing at "climate change":
Standards and Practices
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Funding isn't the only political donnybrook in the offing when the renewal of welfare reform is debated next year.
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In fact, the urge had dissipated somewhat, now that the promise of a chance at R 'shiel was in the offing.
TREASON KEEP
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Ceylon they proceed to Siam, and thence to Hong-Kong, where they drop anchor in the offing, and by a special custom the cargo is sold and paid for in sycee silver before disfreighting, and the bullion is in the safe of the huge smuggler, although the opium has not yet been removed.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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There were hundreds of them, scoffing the free nosh and hoovering down the drink and wittering on as if they were the saviours of the world.
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Alternatively, is there a family inheritance in the offing?
Times, Sunday Times
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In the meantime, they assassinated their vice president and just missed offing the president.
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The rodent squeezed into this bird feeder but after scoffing the lot was too fat to get out.
The Sun
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She need not worry, for she has money in the bank, and no doubt there is a young man in the offing, on the other side of the fjeld.
Look Back on Happiness
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After Anaximenes came some one jolly, scoffing, and yet profound: the philosopher-poet Xenopha-nes.
