And he was a lifelong tilter at social conventions. From Wordnik.com. [Lynn Sherr: Women On The News, Then And Now (Hint: There Are More Now)] Reference
It was only the other nuts in the assylum like the minnow minions at (U) sp that paid any attention to that windmill tilter. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Gossett elected King County Council Chairman] Reference
The object is for the tilter to shove his opponent out of his canoe, meanwhile seeing to it that the same undesirable fate does not fall to his own lot. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Spanish: Don Quixote he admits later in the letter to not reading Spanish, and mentions Cervantes by name at that point, but I like the thought of a business card that reads "Don Quixote: author and tilter at windmills" so I am leaving the name he put in his list proper. From Wordnik.com. [Even in a little thing] Reference
I am become Death, destroyer of Aces, slayer of Kings, tilter of D-bags. From Wordnik.com. [Pokerati | Texas Hold'em and Las Vegas Poker Blog] Reference
Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed. From Wordnik.com. [Measure for Measure] Reference
Heiss said a tilter / lifter was installed so heavy loads could be picked up from a standing position. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Instead, here's a picture of advanced hat tilter, Tony, demonstrating that uberscrotebaggery can often only be marked by one clear sign. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Chicks with Douchebags] Reference
Anna - no tilter at windmills - went to the board's finance committee meeting last week, along with several seniors from other neighbourhoods. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
He had been a bold and dashing cavalier in his youth, a famous tilter in tournaments in his middle age, and a hard-fighting soldier all his life. From Wordnik.com. [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference
His next project, according to the Internet Movie Database, will be playing legendary windmill tilter Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam's long-gestating. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Except for a stammer, he outgrew both defects, and became a skilled tilter and marksman, as well as an accomplished scholar and a diligent student of theology. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Associated with the early use of tea kettles slung over a fire is the now scarce lazy-back or tilter, at one time common in the West of England and in South Wales. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Household Curios] Reference
"Why, John, so strong and strange a tilter must fight for the brightness of his lady's eyes or the curve of her eyelash, even as Sir Nigel does for the Lady Loring.". From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
But on this one day of the, it tilter do us all typographically rebelliously to embracement a cyanogen tautly and milage forgetfully how zealously we sniffler it eruditely in the us. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Large steel teeth within the cymbal tilter means you will probably never strip the tilter The boom arms can be retracted and inserted into the tubing transforming the arm into a standard straight cymbal arm. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
But I have never heard of a swivel-tilter armchair (only a swivel chair), and it is somewhat ludicrous to show a series of boxes from which one is supposed to identify various components of computer hardware. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1] Reference
And in the 43 Elizabeth, was m made master of the horse, being the '1 best horseman and tilter of the times; which office he° had continued to him by James I. being alsoi' constituted one of the commissioners for executing the office of Earl Marshal. From Wordnik.com. [Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
O, thats a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose. From Wordnik.com. [Act III. Scene IV. As You Like It] Reference
The 700 Series has many features that are new to Mapex hardware including the Super-Glide stepless cymbal tilter and Multi-sustain Cymbal Felts, that allow the player to use any combination of plastic or felt on their cymbal stands for more precise sustain. From Wordnik.com. [Harmony Central] Reference
O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly guides. From Wordnik.com. [As You Like It] Reference
O, that’s a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose: but all’s brave that youth mounts and folly guides. From Wordnik.com. [As You Like It] Reference
The high-born tilter shivers spear. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
Do you know him? he ‘s an admirable tilter. From Wordnik.com. [The White Devil] Reference
"Yea," said David, "but art thou a good tilter?". From Wordnik.com. [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference
The derissive reference to “tilter-against-windmills-and-hockey-sticks Ross McKitrick” sounds a lot like grade-school name-calling. From Wordnik.com. [Antarctic and Sea Level « Climate Audit] Reference
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