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2024 March 6, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Who will run our railways?”, inRAIL, number1004, page 3:
GBR will either be letting operating contracts or running rail companies directly, depending on which party wins the next General Election. Whichever it is, you can be forgiven forarching an eyebrow at an infrastructure company being placed in overall control.
I attempted to hide my emotions, but anarch remark escaped my lips.
1710 July 15 (Gregorian calendar),Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms;Richard Steeleet al.], “Tuesday, July 4, 1710”, inThe Tatler, number193; republished in [Richard Steele], editor,The Tatler,[…], London stereotype edition, volume III, London: I. Walker and Co.;[…],1822,→OCLC:
[He] spoke his request with soarch a leer.
The spelling has been modernized.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Adventures that Happened to the Author.[…]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World.[…][Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London:[…]Benj[amin] Motte,[…],→OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag),page247:
I was every day furniſhing the Court with ſome ridiculous Story; andGlumdalclitch, although ſhe loved me to Exceſs, yet wasarch enough to inform the Queen, whenever I committed any Folly that ſhe thought would be diverting to her Majeſty.
A certain melancholy that touched her countenance must have been of recent birth, for it had not yet altered the fine and youthful contours of her cheek, nor subdued thearch though resolute curve of her lips.
Lassiter ended there with dry humor, yet behind that was meaning. Jane blushed and madearch eyes at him.
2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, inThe New York Times[2],→ISSN:
Not trusting filmgoers to catch the drift, Ms. Coppola underscores the women’s attempts to gussy up with snippets ofarch dialogue.
2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, inBBC[3]:
When you're watching aWes Anderson film, you know it. Within seconds, you spot the symmetrical compositions, the horizontal camera moves, the blocks of garish colour, the san-serif lettering, thearch, wordy, vaguely melancholy humour and all the other elements that distinguish his comedies from everyone else's.
2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, inThe New York Times[4]:
Ms. Brier specializes in point of view, or P.O.V., videos that confront relatable, often hateable characters, with a subtle sneer, gleefully rubbery body andarch delivery of generational catchphrases like “slay, queen” and “I got you,” often repeated for effect.
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^J. J. Hogan and Patrick C. O'Neill (1947) “A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN GLOSSARY”, inBéaloideas[1], volume17, number1/2, An Cumann Le Béaloideas Eireann/Folklore of lreland Society, page263
Mae’r arddangosfa yn ymchwilio i’r modd y caiff y corff dynol ei gadw wedi marwolaeth. Penllanw deng mlynedd o waith yw’r casgliad o jariau claddu aceirch carreg maint llawn.
The exhibition explores the way in which the human body is preserved after daeth. The collection of burial jars full-size stonecoffins is the culmination of ten years' work.
A Duw a ddywedodd wrth Noah, diwedd pôb cnawd a ddaeth ger fy mron: o blegit llanwyd y ddaiar a thrawſedd oi herwydd hwynt: ac wele myfi ai difethaf hwynt gyd ar ddaiar. Gwna di itArch o goed Gopher, yn gellau y gwnei'rArch, a phŷga hi oddi fewn, ac oddi allan a phŷg.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee anark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in theark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “arch”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
