Behind his natural hair was augmented by the addition of a large queue, called vulgarly the false tail, which, enrolled in some yards of black riband, hung halfway down his back. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
A kind of a camp at a village called vulgarly BARF; but corruptly, no doubt, from BURGH. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of an English Town] Reference
"The juice of the Upas -- vulgarly called the Poison-tree.". From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
So enough; come with me and learn how to be vulgarly robust. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
In short, she was a branchiopod, to be vulgarly precise, a water-flea. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Stand upright and do not be either cringing or vulgarly self-assertive. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
That very interesting and animated earthquake, vulgarly called the Great. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
British and Roman Martyrologies: he was vulgarly called by our ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
We are rapidly approaching what is vulgarly termed the psychological moment. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
'Thursday, Decemb. 25, vulgarly known by the name of Christmas Day, both Houses sate. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
I do not remember a more vulgarly repulsive person than this privateering lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
There are few records of religious feeling on board the "Jersey, vulgarly called 'Hell.'". From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
They have found out that they have, vulgarly speaking, bitten off more than they can chew. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
When obstructed, their contents become hard and dark-colored, and are vulgarly called "worms.". From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Summed up it comes to this really, and I give it now vulgarly, baldly, boldly, and once for all. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Turning, therefore, directly to the left, they swept up the strait vulgarly called the East River. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
"Dear Alice, my voice never was vulgarly loud, was it? recollect, if you please," in an injured tone. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
There is no food for thought in carefully swept pavements, barren kennels, and vulgarly spotless houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Nevertheless, it throws a flood of light upon the morals of a class of society vulgarly termed fashionable. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Features, and trac'd in them the exact Lineaments of your glorious Ancestor Sir JOHN BRAND, vulgarly call'd. From Wordnik.com. [A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)] Reference
The only worm recognized as edible by civilized man is produced in Italy and vulgarly known as wormy-chilly. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870] Reference
He, therefore, took his sister Araua Ocllo to wife, by whom he had a son Tupac Cusi Hualpa, vulgarly called Huascar. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
Over the past several months it has mounted a concerted campaign to drive the Roma (or, more vulgarly, Gypsies) out of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Reflecting On Race Barriers] Reference
Bursfield in Germany, was established by a Reformation in 1461: that of Molck, vulgarly Mock, in Austria, in the diocese of Passaw, in. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
That prompted a furious Chernomyrdin to vulgarly rebuke one of his own deputies -- even though network television cameras were rolling. From Wordnik.com. [Hugs Aren't Enough For This Bear] Reference
These that came to Bethlehem on this solemn occasion are vulgarly called kings, as they very likely were at least of an inferior and subordinate rank. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
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