A kind of pantechnicon of slovenly knowledge; a knower of thousands of things that aren't so. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
A pantechnicon concealed the manoeuvre from the traffic that followed. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
One G.S. waggon, laden till it resembled a pantechnicon, was soon in dire straits. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
It rattled like a pantechnicon and shook the whole place, and I hated it out of all proportion. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
But at the nearby Good Hope Centre, a pantechnicon-load of ballot boxes from the populous Mitchell's Plain district was offloaded only shortly after. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The only thing is to reform one's life and learn to be a pantechnicon; one may also, with a little ingenuity, use one's clothes to serve a double purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914] Reference
All as if it had tumbled haphazard off the pantechnicon of civilisation as it dragged round the edges of this wild land, and there lay, busy but not rooted in. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Ethel and St. Nivel, having an unlimited command of money, ordered pretty nearly everything they were advised to take, with the result that we required a small pantechnicon van to take our combined luggage. From Wordnik.com. [A Queen's Error] Reference
I should think one pantechnicon would do, just for this parish. From Wordnik.com. [Touch and Go] Reference
French pantechnicon, towed at a high speed over an abominable road. From Wordnik.com. [Jonah and Co.] Reference
I added that the pantechnicon would be consigned to me under another name. From Wordnik.com. [Jonah and Co.] Reference
"I think," said I, nodding at a huge pantechnicon, "that we might pass the furniture.". From Wordnik.com. [Jonah and Co.] Reference
Gordon Brown has such a pantechnicon of baggage he has little room for manoeuvre, even if he could and would. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Confronted with the Roller Team's pantechnicon proportions, one of the neighbours had enquired jokingly if we were moving house. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
A pantechnicon procession of the more daring, shot with the growing pains, was grading and building into the vast clayey seas west of. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
By eight o'clock on Wednesday morning, a dozen pantechnicon vans were blocking the Rue Crevaux from the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective] Reference
Up, breakfasted, packed and out of the apartment by 10am, we eventually got the car (pantechnicon) out of the garage and then down the narrow driveway. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
The whole place was so terribly raw and flat and accidental, as if great pieces of furniture had tumbled out of a pantechnicon and lay discarded by the road. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
By the way, whenever we change houses a special pantechnicon has to be engaged to take all the complimentary verses that have from time to time been addressed to me. From Wordnik.com. [Marge Askinforit] Reference
The west is quickly moving toward a police state and total pantechnicon where technology will create a perfect prison and the fate of Liberty will be sealed forever. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Obama celebrates July 4th at White House barbecue] Reference
Unfortunately, there was no ship immediately available for them, and at the present moment they are in a pantechnicon labelled "Theatrical Troupe" (a tip from BOTHA) touring the Cromwell Road. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914] Reference
M. Fleurey turned to his desk and his visitor saw that this glistening pantechnicon, usually so immaculate, was now littered with reference books, most of them ancient volumes, greasy with much thumbing. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Danger]
The coat hanger winked out, they thanked me and left forthwith leaving no trace save a small dent where a pantechnicon lorry had smashed through the back wall of the stage to deliver a replacement snare drum. From Wordnik.com. [Djouls.com - Music You Don't Hear On The Radio] Reference
Glancing at the pantechnicon of a wardrobe with its quadruple doors, he realized that the police must have leapt upon this as a possible source of discovery, and he knew better than anyone that to search after a Yard man is so much waste of time. From Wordnik.com. [Police at the Funeral]
"Sir Pleydell Harcourt for instance, who had sixteen pianos sent to him only last week, to say nothing of pantechnicon vans and half the contents of Harrods 'and Whiteleys', so that Arlington Street was blocked, simply blocked, the whole of last Friday.". From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Lost Himself] Reference
Unexpected, because this bewitching structure is one of seven brand-new, imaginative and full-scale buildings installed through the museum's galleries this week; and apposite because this glorious Victorian pantechnicon is so jammed with curiosities that Terunobu Fujimori's. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
It has been brought to my attention that another flag-bedecked, bunting-encrusted electoral pantechnicon has been brought to a roaring, shuddering crescendo, climaxing in a orgy of voting never before seen in the history of this Republic as a hundred million tiny souls rushed to negate each others 'ballots. From Wordnik.com. [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference
I wrote at once, saying that, as I was shortly leaving for New York, I should be obliged if they would forward them via Liverpool to the Piraeus: I inquired whether they had any objection to being paid in roubles: and I advised them that I was shortly expecting a pantechnicon, purporting to contain furniture, but, in reality, full of mines. From Wordnik.com. [Jonah and Co.] Reference
The ICONOCLAST desires to see Baylor a veritable pantechnicon of learning -- at least a place where the careful student may acquire something really worth remembering -- instead of a Dotheboys (and girls) hall, a Squeeritic graft to relieve simple Baptist folk of their hard-earned boodle by beludaling the brains of their bairns with mis-called education. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
"They're wonderful together -- draw a pantechnicon. From Wordnik.com. [The Slowcoach] Reference
40-horse power Daimler behind a horse pantechnicon. From Wordnik.com. [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference
Here is mine: http://nobaddays. wordpress.com/2007/08/12/pantechnicon-in-training/nomotherearth Said. From Wordnik.com. [In The Bag | Her Bad Mother] Reference
19th-century Prussian classicism - a Greek temple for our times - the 10-year Neues Museum project witnessed a brilliant knitting-together of a bombed-out mid 19th-century cultural pantechnicon with new galleries that take the spirit of classicism forward free of pastiche. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Here is mine: http://nobaddays.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/pantechnicon-in-training/. From Wordnik.com. [In The Bag] Reference
France: "Valet, cook, porter, boots, chamber-maid, ostler, carpenter, upholsterer, mechanic, inventor, needlewoman, coalheaver, diplomat, barber, linguist (home-made), clerk, universal provider, complete pantechnicon and infallible bodyguard, he is also a soldier, if a very old soldier, and a man of the most human kind.". From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Punch's History of the Great War] Reference
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