How To Use Shandy In A Sentence
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Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit.
Comedy in Literature
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Those who've seen Michael Winterbottom's film A Cock and Bull Story, a surreal treatment of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, will recall the droll rivalry of Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, playing themselves when the periwigs came off.
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With 94.2 miles under our belt, our now habitual evening drink - a pint of shandy - had never tasted so good.
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Wishing for an example, we merely opened the first volume of Tristram Shandy at a venture, and 'thus the Anarch old With faltering speech and visage incomposed Answered':
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Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit.
Comedy in Literature
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A beer and a shandy were her limit and I know we dont drink much anymore but come on.
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A 1920s guidebook described Shandy Hall as "sonsy"– a Scottish word meaning good-natured, and that's true.
Life in a medieval home
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Chapter 7
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A shandy is a part-beer (typically a light, sessionable, lager) and part lemonade (or ginger beer).
Great Taste In Review
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Not to be off-putting, Professor Shandy, but did you know that this building was once the regional pesthouse ?
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Ray arrived and ordered a pint of shandy, Mark looked at him strangely and then noticed the car keys Ray had put on the bar.
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PC Alison Westmorland works with young people around South Lakeland: ‘It used to be cider and shandy, now it's alcopops and vodka.’
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It's a bosker thirst-quencher. Give us another shandy, darling.
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He really can't hold his drink well though, half a shandy and he started pouring his little heart out to me on the way back to the hotel.
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President Fingal became fairly impassioned with regard to the spruce budworm, Professor Shandy waxed eloquent on the nematode.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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A more quintessentially Formalist approach to narrative is contained in Shklovsky's essay on Tristram Shandy.
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The plot flushes through your head faster than a pint of shandy.
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The pub was quiet as Dan sipped his pint of Stella shandy, served by a barman who he'd never seen doing the evening shift.
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One's opinions on veracity might determine whether or not one agrees with the proposition that Tristram Shandy is an appropriate model for the on-line littérateur.
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Chapter 9
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The brain associates completing the arduous learning task with the reward of a vigorous hand shandy.
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She normally drank shandy, but vodka did not seem inappropriate in the circumstances (in fact, I wished I'd asked for a double Southern Comfort myself, no soda, no ice).
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But Rowson's Tristram Shandy is an antinovel not about WRITING but about READING Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
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It's a lemonade-ish beer a "shandy" is typically half lemonade, half wheat beer that goes down well bitterly cold.
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I then suggested that perhaps all they needed was a nice cup of coffee or a half of shandy.
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Perhaps we were the lucky ones, celebrating our adolescence with a pierced ear and a can of shandy, challenging the system by daring to let our hair touch our collars and wearing non regulation shoes to school.
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Being born in a pub, and not unknown to frequent his local hostelry for a shandy or two, Pembrokeshire author Keith Johnson is eminently qualified to be the author of his latest volume on county watering-holes.
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Keeley is about to start filming the new Michael Winterbottom movie, Tristram Shandy, co-starring Steve Coogan.
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And maybe on a very hot day a shandy, which is a mixture of beer and lemonade.
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Sterne was a village vicar in the Church of England for about twenty-two years; The Sermons of Mr. Yorick are his own Mr. Yorick is a character in Tristram Shandy, distantly related to Hamlet's Yorick; Sterne applies the name jokingly to himself. posted by Brandon | 12:57 PM
Archive 2005-03-01
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Having posed a similar problem in Tristram Shandy, Sterne rudely knocks it down by informing the reader that ‘Obadiah had not got above threescore yards from the stable-yard before he met with Dr Slop’.
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Like "just A moment," the album sees the act expanding the posthardcore sounds that dominated their early releases. "shandy" starts as an experimental pop song filled with dizzying distorted noises and then morphs into a dramatic rocker. "this is is this?" is the disc's most dynamic composition.
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So Frances Hodgson Rondel must, one way and another, have got quite an earful about Professor Shandy's strange avocation.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Shandy Gaff is made with equal parts of beer and ginger ale.
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I washed it down with a pint of John Smith's, which with my soft friend's lager shandy came to more than £5 a little steep, I am sure you will agree.
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It's a work of exactitude in literature not rivalled outside Tristram Shandy.
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Shandy for the men and the girls on little drops of vodka and Baby Burpjoys and I don’t know what next in the way of gut-rot.
Cargo of Eagles
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Whether it's filming the so-called unfilmable (A Cock and Bull Story from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy), telling the story of Muslims, both
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He called it "shandy," and I felt as though the lemon soda was being punished.
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Some claim that the term ‘Divan’ is an Arabized Persian word while AI-Kalkashandy argued that it is an Arabic word.
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In some of his trysts, he adopted the persona of his famous novel's protagonist; in a 1765 letter to "Lady P" he wrote, "There is a strange mechanical effect produced in [being] within a stonecast of the lady who engrosses the heart and soul of an inamorato - for this cause have I, Tristram Shandy, come forth from my lodgings to a coffee-house the nearest I could find to my dear Lady's house.
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GOOOOODDDDD DAAAAMMMM ITS WARM TODAY FELLOW DEFENDERS OF THE REALM!!!!!! however i am now nursing a nice lager shandy (off duty of course, im not in CID) and sat in the shade. meanwhile up north today i had to stifle mirth (not very succesfully) as we placed a ‘regular service user’ into a cell. as i left him and came home i hear he was still kicking off about how stifling his cell is … … .. clearly the systems failed him and i feel absolutely dreadful for him … … …. no honestly i do … … … … on July 1, 2009 at 7: 42 pm | Reply Olivers Army
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Drink spirits and mixers, or bottled concoctions, or shandy.
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Eugenides lets us know he knows what we know about the fictiveness of fiction; he even evokes "Tristram Shandy's" digressive account of the narrator's own conception.
The Gender Blender
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He'd obviously had a half too much of shandy, though.
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Keeley is about to start filming the new Michael Winterbottom movie, Tristram Shandy, co-starring Steve Coogan.
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My Dad goes golfing and has a shandy in the clubhouse before arriving home at exactly 2pm for lunch.
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Like a frush!) to keep her flouncies off the grass while paying the wetmenots a musichall visit and pair her fiefighs fore him with just one curl after the cad came back which we fought he wars a gunner and his corkiness lay up two bottles of joy with a shandy had by Fred and a fino oloroso which he was warming to, my right, Jimmy, my old brown freer? —
Finnegans Wake
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I'm sure that the majority of real detectives have no more than the occasional half of shandy and live in domestic bliss, and are not haunted by the victims of crimes they could not solve.
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Works such as Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy made digressiveness itself a part of the satire.
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To complaints of this kind — which have been voiced with regard to the earlier books as well — defenders of Rushdie have responded by arguing that he works, and should therefore be read, within two narrative traditions: of the Western novel (with its subgenre, the anti-novel à la Tristram Shandy), and of Eastern story-cycles like the Panchatantra, with their chainlike linking of self-contained, shorter narratives.
Palimpsest Regained
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Peter's grandmother Shandy had collected a shoe box full of these pages but she'd never got around to pasting them in a scrapbook.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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I also like a Pimms in the summer, and sometimes a shandy, but that's not very cool, is it!
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Feeling a bit of a prawn standing alone on the dancefloor, I edged back into the house and reclaimed my shandy.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is a novel of voluptuous digressiveness, scornful of the straight narrative lines it keeps promising to adopt.
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Mr. Policeman, I went to England with my grandma last summer, and I had a can of shandy, which is beer mixed with lemonade.
Going Too Far
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For the non-alcoholic drinkers, he says, he is always ready with a rock shandy.
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Just as she was wondering if she could sneak off for a pint of shandy before dehydration took a serious grip, the tent flap opened again.
TICKLED PINK
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Whenever the smoke of the grill became unbearable I would stand in the car park with a lime and lemonade, or sometimes a shandy, and she would look up from her book and smile.
