How To Use Sheeny In A Sentence
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It was then that Mr. Sheeny detailed to me the particulars to which I have briefly adverted; and, informing me at the same time that he had a family in England who would feel obliged to me for his release, and that his most intimate friend the English ambassador would move heaven and earth to revenge his fall, he directed my attention to a portmanteau passably well filled, which he hoped would satisfy the cupidity of my troops.
Burlesques
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The cover is also rather joyous to behold: in repro, it looks like a deathly shade of mustard but it’s actually sheeny shiny gold foil so each book looks like a block of bullion!
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Take Five Interview: Victoria Holmes and FIRESTAR’S QUEST
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Milder forms of antagonism consist in sending the immigrant workers "to Coventry," using contemptuous language of or to them, as we hear every day in "dago" or "sheeny," and in objections by the elders to the young people associating together, while the shameful use that is continually made of the immigrants as strike-breakers may rouse such mutual indignation that there are riots and pitched battles as a consequence.
The Trade Union Woman
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You will never win an Italian as long as you call him or think of him as "dago," nor a Jew while you nickname him "sheeny.
Aliens or Americans?
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Then he looked at the damsel and saw her surpassing beauty and loveliness and symmetry and perfect grace, with a face like the rondure of the moon at its full or the sun shining in the sheeny sky.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Having perfected his angsty, sheeny whine, he sounds good, even if he seems to spend most of this album jabbering about how late it is and what the weather's like in some city or other.
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The light from the Bleak Inn reflected off of the sheeny coating of dew which covered the street.
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Having perfected his angsty, sheeny whine, he sounds good, even if he seems to spend most of this album jabbering about how late it is and what the weather's like in some city or other.
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Inne sheenynge goulde, lyke feerie [57] gronfers [58], dyghte [59],
The Rowley Poems
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The second movement bestrode the narrow line between too-slow and just-slow-enough, and when the orchestra tuttis intervened I found myself longing for the return of that sheeny sound again.
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Everything spread out again: the bridges with their arches opening upon the sheeny water; the Cite, enveloped in shade, above which rose the flavescent towers of Notre-Dame; the great curve of the right bank flooded with sunlight, and ending in the indistinct silhouette of the
His Masterpiece
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‘Pierre Lunaire’ is a clear highlight, a dark, demented meditation on obsession cased in sheeny synths and vibrating turntable scratches.
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I have a big night out which means I'm looking for a facial that will leave me buffed and sheeny for immediate impact today, not blotchy and deep cleansed for lasting benefits tomorrow.
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The skin is sheeny and age-spotted and slightly yellow.
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Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting.
Ulysses
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Sheeny should not be traced to German shin, a cant word for "miser; base fellow; cheat" (an etymology proposed by a distinguished scholar).
OUPblog
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Women with oiled and sheeny hair, combs thrust through their buns and intricate embroidered aprons tied round their waists, thronged the riverside bazaar.
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The second movement bestrode the narrow line between too-slow and just-slow-enough, and when the orchestra tuttis intervened I found myself longing for the return of that sheeny sound again.
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Purists may bemoan the use of an actual producer and recording studio, and sure, the record is a tad sheeny.
