saki as quoted author
Oxford English Dictionary
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Found: 70 entries
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1. acquaintan(1912) Saki Unbearable Bassington xiii. 240 ``One
rode for sweltering miles for the chance of meeting a collector
or police officer, with whom most likely on closer acquaintance
one had hardly two ideas in common. ''
2. balalaika (1913) Saki When William Came iii. 43 ``The
thrumming music of a balalaika orchestra coming up from the
restaurant below. ''
3. best (1912) Saki Unbearable Bassington ii. 29 ``You'll get six
of the very best, over the back of a chair. ''
4. bridge (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts 258 ```What did one
send them?'..`Bridge-markers.' ''
5. bridge (1910) Saki Reg. in Russia &. Other Sk. 96
``Occasionally she went to bridge parties. ''
6. cake-walk (1904) Saki Reginald 90 ``A mouse used to cake-walk
about my room. ''
7. cap (A. 1916) Saki Square Egg (1924) 124 ``Men of divers
variety of cap badges. ''
8. Carlsbad (A. 1916) Saki Toys of Peace (1919) 130 ``Trying to
decide between the merits of Carlsbad plums and confected figs
as a winter dessert. ''
9. choke (A. 1916) Saki Seven Cream Jugs in Toys of Peace (1919)
227 ``We always choked him off from coming to see us. ''
10. cloak-room(1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-beasts 180 ``He left all
the parcels in charge of the cloak-room attendant. ''
11. club (1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 242 ``The brains of clubland
were much exercised in seeking out possible merit. ''
12. gold-fish (1904) Saki Reginald 115, ``I might have been a
gold&dubh.fish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got. ''
13. great (A. 1916) Saki Coll. Short Stories (1930) 407 ``A
William the Conqueror calendar..with a quotation of one of his
greatest thoughts for every day in the year. ''
14. halfpenny (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts 116 ``The office
of one of the halfpenny dailies. ''
15. halva (A. 1916) Saki Toys of Peace (1919) 134 ``A tin of the
best Smyrna halva. ''
16. heaven (A. 1916) Saki Square Egg (1924) 125 ``From privates in
the Regular Army to Heaven-knows-what in some intermediate
corps. ''
17. in (1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 187 ``Her fellow-gamblers were
always ready to entertain her..when their luck was in.''
18. instalment(1904) Saki Reginald 52 ``They're getting there on
the instalment system-so much down, and the rest when you feel
like it. ''
19. Jaffa (A. 1916) Saki Toys of Peace (1919) 134 ``We have some
very fine Jaffa oranges. ''
20. leave (1910) Saki Reginald in Russia 8 ``Left to themselves,
Egbert and Lady Anne would unfailingly have called him Fluff.''
21. lift (1904) Saki Reginald 15 ``*Lift-boys always have aged
mothers. ''
22. liqueur (1904) Saki Reginald 84 ``Some *liqueur chocolates had
been turned loose by mistake among the refreshments-really
liqueur chocolates, with very little chocolate. ''
23. liqueur (1904) Saki Reginald 16 ``There are liqueur glasses,
and crystallized fruits. ''
24. lobster (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts 172 ``The *lobster
Newburg and the egg mayonnaise. ''
25. long (1910) Saki Reginald in Russia 105 ``The long arm, or
perhaps one might better say the long purse, of diplomacy at
last effected the release of the prisoners. ''
26. look (1910) Saki Reginald in Russia 63 ``He often wished, for
the look of the thing, that people would sometimes burn candles
at his shrine. ''
27. lump (A. 1916) Saki Toys of Peace (1919) 24 ``Little friendly
questions about weak or strong tea, how much, if any, sugar,
milk, cream, and so forth. `Is it one lump? I forgot.' ''
28. mark (1910) Saki Reginald in Russia 43 ``They have turned
instead to the muddy lanes and cheap villas and the marked-down
ills of life. ''
29. milk (1904) Saki Reginald 101 ``They all sat down to play
progressive halma, with milk-chocolate for prizes. ''
30. ministerin(1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 223 ``Martin Stoner rose
heavily to his feet and followed his ministering angel along a
passage..into a large room lit with a cheerfully blazing fire.''
31. motor (1910) Saki Reginald in Russia 17 ``What I had mistaken
for a motor accident was evidently a case of savage assault and
murder. ''
32. motor car (1901) Saki Let. 17 Aug. in Square Egg (1924) 61
``Travelling with Aunt Tom is more exciting than motorcarring.''
33. much (1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 196 ``The County..mustered in
full strength to witness the *much-talked-of production. ''
34. musical (1910) Saki in Bystander 7 Dec. 484/1 ``Noted lights
of the musical-comedy stage. ''
35. negociant (1910) Saki Reginald in Russia 104 ``The little
Lemberg n&eacu.gociant plucked up heart. ''
36. no can do (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts 289 ```Sorry, my
dear, no can do,' said Suzanne. ''
37. perch (A. 1916) Saki in Coll. Short Stories (1930) 316 ``Mrs.
Quabari, to use a colloquial expression, was knocked off her
perch. ''
38. petits che(1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 181 ``It was just before
petits chevaux had been supplanted by boule. ''
39. piccolo (1910) Saki Reginald in Russia 71 ``Watching the
amount that I gave to the piccolo. ''
40. pin (A. 1916) Saki Toys of Peace (1919) 290 ``To-day we are
putting little *pin-flags again into maps of the Balkan region.''
41. poker (1912) Saki Stampeding of Lady Bastable in Chronicles of
Clovis 55 ``He particularly wanted to teach the MacGregor
boys..*poker-patience. ''
42. Pontet-Can(1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 184 ``Waiter, a bottle of
Pontet Canet. ''
43. prairie (1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 275 ``He hurriedly ordered
another prairie oyster. ''
44. press (A. 1916) Saki Infernal Parliament in Square Egg (1924)
148 ``Pasting notices of modern British plays into a huge
press-cutting book. ''
45. racially (1914) Saki When William Came x. 170 ``The record of
your racially-blended supper-party. ''
46. restless (1914) Saki When William Came vi. 101 ``You must
remember that thousands and thousands of the more virile and
restless-souled men have emigrated.''
47. road (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts 32 ``He [sc. a horse]
was not really road-shy, but there were one or two objects of
dislike that brought on sudden attacks of what Toby called the
swerving sickness.''
48. salvage (1919) Saki Fate in Toys of Peace 200 ``The billiard
table..was not the best place to have chosen for the scene of
*salvage operations. ''
49. Salvation (1910) Saki Lost Sarijak in Reginald in Russia 16
``The corpse was that of a Salvation Army captain. ''
50. sausage (1913) Saki When William Came xii. 206 ``A highly
civilized race like ours..is not going to be held under for
long by a lot of damned *sausage-eating Germans. ''
51. schipperke(1912) Saki Unbearable Bassington xiv. 263 ``A small
black dog, something like a schipperke,..ran from behind my
chair. ''
52. see (A. 1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts (1914) 217 ``If
you'll lend me three pounds that ought to see me through
comfortably. ''
53. set (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts 308 ``The
one-and-sixpenny set dinner receded..to a Sunday extravagance.''
54. shadow (1913) Saki When William Came (1914) xviii. 288 ``A
grey *shadow-hung land which seemed to have been emptied of all
things that belonged to the daytime. ''
55. shut (1913) Saki When William Came (1914) xvi. 272 ``He looked
round again at the rolling stretches of brown hills; before he
had regarded them merely as the background to this little
shut-away world. ''
56. smoke (1904) Saki Reginald 3 ``You want one of her *smoke
Persian kittens. ''
57. spade (1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 267 ```Where I think you
political *spade-workers are so silly,' said the Duke, `is in
the misdirection of your efforts.' ''
58. specialite(1914) Saki When William Came xiv. 242 ``Iced
mulberry salad, my dear, it's a sp&eacu.cialit&eacu. de la
maison, so to speak; they say the roving husband brought the
recipe from Astrakhan, or Seville, or some such outlandish
place. ''
59. stiff (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts 65 ``Old Shep, the
white-nozzled, *stiff-limbed collie. ''
60. Swedish (1912) Saki Unbearable Bassington vii. 124 ``A
sporting cat..watching the Swedish exercises of a
well-spent..mouse. ''
61. thank (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-Beasts 217 ``If you lend me
three pounds that ought to see me through comfortably. Thanks
ever so. ''
62. thorn (1913) Saki When William Came vi. 102 ``We have
somewhere to go to..better than the scrub and the veldt and the
*thorn-jungles. ''
63. throng (1912) Saki Unbearable Bassington x. 170 ``The Rutland
Galleries were crowded..by a fashionable throng of art-patrons.''
64. tourist (1912) Saki Chron. Clovis 137 ``Continental
travel..away from the great *tourist tracks, was a favoured
hobby. ''
65. violette d(1913) Saki When William Came (1914) xiv. 243 ``All
the hangings, violette de Parme, all the furniture, rosewood.''
66. Wanderjahr(A. 1910) Saki Coll. Short Stories (1930) 105 ``The
mouse..seemed to be trying to crowd a Wanderjahr into a few
strenuous minutes. ''
67. week-end (1911) Saki in Bystander 12 Apr. 70/2 ``I've seen a
week-end cottage near Dorking that I should rather like to buy.''
68. West Highl(1910) Saki Reginald in Russia 28 ``A lady..was
expressing to me..her interest in West Highland terriers. ''
69. wild (A. 1916) Saki Toys of Peace (1919) 82 ``By the time they
had arrived at the wild duck course it was beginning to be a
rather expensive lunch. ''
70. Yorkshire (1914) Saki Beasts &. Super-beasts 24 ``Tarquin, the
huge white Yorkshire boar-pig, had exchanged the narrow limits
of his stye for the wider range of the grass paddock. ''