Citations:brokeback

English citations of brokeback

Indeterminate

This only seems to appear in this edition of the poem.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper  ) The Coke's Tale of Gamelyn‎^[1]: “Got save you lordilingis!
Which that now here be;
But as for the, brokeback shereve,
Evil mote thou the!”

Noun: hunchback

Carson McCullers (1943) The Ballad of the Sad Café: “[…] but if the hunchback got in his way he would cuff him with the back of his hand or say: "Out of my way, Brokeback, — I'll snatch you bald-headed […]”

Lawrence Graver (1969) Carson McCullers: “he alternates between abusiveness and complete indifference, calling the sullen dwarf "Brokeback" at one moment and ignoring him the next”

Jerome Charyn (1979) The Seventh Babe: “A skinny fella and a brokeback. The skinny one got out of the car. "Where's the owner of this cattle farm"”

Adjective: broken

John Connolly (2003) The White Road: A Thriller: “Dark fields went by, the hollow shapes of brokeback houses visible against the horizon.”

Peter Josyph (2006) Liberty Street: “and of why, in each case, the shape of the flatbed — normally rising upward like the arc of a suspension bridge — was totally reversed so that it sagged into the street, and of why, at any time, at least one or two brokeback Macks were incapacitated along West Street.”

Charles Stross (2007) Halting State: “[…] and waterfalls thundering into the subterranean depths — and stepping-stones and brokeback bridges to traverse under fire from the chittering hordes.”

Adjective: homosexual

Todd Wooten (2006) White Men Can't Hump (as Good as Black Men): “All of these blowhards sing about the ills of Homosexuality […] but practise Brokeback policies when the lights go out”

Michael Mannske (2006) Foreign and Domestic: Act 1 Editors Galley‎^[2]: “"I'm not sleeping with any queers"
The gym fell silent. Recruits all looked around him for a while and then a few more hands went up.
[…]
"No way, brokeback"”

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2008) Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List: “I told her the only person a I named Robin should date is a guy named Batman, so they can live in their Brokeback Batcave and S3.”

Rhonda Pollero (2008) Knock Off: “They were always touching each other like, well, like Brokeback Kitties. Butch or Sundance — they're interchangeable to me — lifted his head and […]”

Adjective: poor

Leesa Barnes (2008) Podcasting for Profit: “Then instead of having an industry filled with brokeback podcasters, we'll have an industry filled with five- and six-figure podcasters.”