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Rader Walter - The Online Slang Dictionary
[ DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS]
... USA, 23-09-97. 2. to eat very quickly. Origin: the same vacuum cleaners. Someone eating quickly could (in theory) be mistaken for a vacuum cleaner. ("He hoovered the whole pizza!") Submitted by Annie Trimble, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 11-03-98. horrorshow adj 1. very good, excellent; COOL. ("I thought ...
Orwell George - Keep The Aspidistra Flying
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... in the family way again! And did I laugh loud enough when the boss made that joke yesterday? And the next instalment on the vacuum cleaner. Neatly, taking a pleasure in his neatness, with the sensation of dropping piece after piece of a jigsaw puzzle into place, he fashioned another ...
Rinehart Mary Roberts - Where There's A Will
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... to sleep the minute his head touched the pillow. And he had no tact. When Mrs. Biggs went to him and explained that the vacuum cleaner must not be used in her room--that it exhausted the air or something, and she could hardly breathe after it--he only looked ...
Arcangeli Annamaria - Welcome To Nicktown
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... and rubbers; a stationer’s shop of Gemona five minutes after the earthquake of ‘76. In short, a mess. This is a place where a vacuum cleaner would come to syndical agitation and a Philippine would go back to Philippines. The messiest stationer of the world is a kind and amiable ...
Lewis Sinclair - Babbitt
[ FICTION]
... hearth-fires. Along the bedroom baseboard were three plugs for electric lamps, concealed by little brass doors. In the halls were plugs for the vacuum cleaner, and in the living-room plugs for the piano lamp, for the electric fan. The trim dining-room (with its admirable oak buffet, its ...
Wharton Edith - The Glimpses Of The Moon
[ FICTION]
... she pictured the drawing-rooms, restaurants, dance-halls they were hastening to, the breathless routine that was hurrying them along, as Time, the old vacuum-cleaner, swept them away with the dust of their carriage-wheels. And again the loneliness vanished in a sense of release .... At the corner of ...
Wharton Edith - The Seed Of The Faith
[ AMERICAN]
... to him. It was the vision he most dreaded, and turning from it he tried to forget himself in watching his friend. "Golly! The vacuum-cleaner ain't been round since my last visit," Mr. Spink observed, as they slipped in a mass of offal beneath a butcher's stall. " ...
Manfredi Valerio Massimo - Pharaoh Of The Sands
[ ITALIAN FICTION]
... sheeting to isolate the sarcophagus and most of the rubble around it from the rest. Ray Sullivan helped him to build a kind of vacuum cleaner to remove the dust, which would be especially useful when he began to remove the slide and transferred all the debris up to the ...
Schwartau Winn - Terminal Compromise
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... staff. "Hey guys, problem?" Joe asked. "Nah, we escaped," a young bearded man in a white lab coat said pointing into the room. "His vacuum cleaner made one God awful noise, so we came out here til' he was done." "New cleaning service," Joe said offhandedly. The dark complexioned cleaning ...
Morley Christopher - Where The Blue Begins
[ FICTION]
... after the feeding of the multitude. Fuji, who was pensive, recalled the five loaves and two fishes that produced twelve baskets of fragments. The vacuum cleaner got clogged by a surfeit of crumbs. Gissing saw that it would be a race between heart and head. If Fuji''s heart should become ...
Steele Chester K. - The Golf Course Mystery
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... a table after greeting some friends. "But you won''t refuse to split a quart with me?" "No. My throat is as dusty as a vacuum cleaner. Have any of the matches started yet, Bruce?" he asked, turning to the Human Encyclopedia. "Only some of the novices. And, speaking of novices, ...

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