Citations:wisterious

English citations of wisterious

1882, Harvard College Class of 1876, Triennial Report of the Secretary, page 14:
... and consistent following of his profession as then given, he has done more or less literary work in translations, adaptations, and evolutions of plays which have met with favor, and given those of us who have sought pleasing diversion from the engrossing cares of life in the parquet circle, or starchy stateliness of the box, many an evening of enjoyment. His touching idyl, "The Lay of the Lonesome Lung" (circulation to date a round million), has a subtle and wisterious pathos that rivals ...
2002, Kevin J. Porter, Come Clean (→ISBN), page 116:
I had butterfly wings. “Now your jewels, Dame Edna.” Brent put mounds of gaudy necklaces around my neck and four huge glitzy rings on my fingers. “Now my pièce de résistance. Close your eyes.” He put on the wig and slipped on the glasses. Fussed a bit over both, and stood back. “Wow! Dame Edna, you look positively wisterious.” I felt excited. Me in drag! Never in my wildest imagination would I have even contemplated buying a bra let alone wear one, and here I was, all dolled up, ...

1901, The Strand Magazine: Feb. 1901 - Jan. 1902, page 651:
... has seen the amazing and terrific ghosts drawn by some of the greatest of the old Japanese artists — such as Okyo and Hokusai — one has no conception of what an appalling thing a ghost can be as fashioned by man's imagination. There is a set of five assorted ghosts drawn by Hokusai that would make a grown man dream at night. No. 8 is a ghost also, but this time a rising, rather than a hanging, ghost, and made by a peony — or botan, as the flower is called in Japan. Again the hands are formed by leaves...

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"A 'WISTERIOUS' GHOST."