And while the French courts in England would cultivate no Shakespeare, or any other author who would add these and other fire-new terms to the language, there were whole populations of nameless creators of English who did: its speakers. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
He would now witness thousands of fire-new terms flowing generously into the lexicon that he had augmented and renewed, and would probably recognize some kinships between the fast-growing English vocabulary of his world and of ours.xvii ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
See also business; English language: Early Modern English; future of; you; film; fire-new; penthouse; Renaissance shampoo, 28–34, 43n, 50, 238n, 256, 276 ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
The other is the fire-new phenomenon: terms minted from the existing word-hoard. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But when she entered, she found a kitchen that might have been minted fire-new from the factory the moment before. v She stopped, stared, turned on her heel and nearly ran into Tony. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1990)
Golding's fifth and latest novel, coming five years after Free Fall, is unsurprising in one way at least: it is fire-new, magnificently written in what, despite its novelty, we can identify as a style bearing the impress of Golding's peculiar presence; but difficult, inviting only slow and submissive readers. ❋ Kermode, Frank (1964)
The good lady almost frightened me as I went in, by her very extraordinary appearance in a tremendous grey gauze turban, fire-new, just arrived by the Henri Quatre packet-ship from Havre, and that gave her exactly the look of one of our Mississippi night-owls. ❋ Various (N/A)
All the Admiral's enemies, and none ever said they were few, had this fire-new commissioner's ear! ❋ Unknown (1922)
Outside of the fortress that afternoon Juan Lepe kept company with one who had come with the fire-new Governor, a grim, quiet fellow named Pedro Lopez. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Every one who disliked Italians, fire-new nobles, sea captains dubbed Admirals and Viceroys came. ❋ Unknown (1922)
This was largely apropos of a fire-new debate concerning the deleterious effects of cigarette-smoking; and when I had made an end, and doggedly lighted another one of them, Bettie said nothing .... ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Only the minstrel added, though Lord Berners did not notice it, a fire-new peroration. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
You should then have accosted her, and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Farnese produced a gold ducat, fire-new from the mint. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
The thought of herself as vulnerable and vincible to the hostile sex had come upon the girl, fire-new, with disruptive force. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)
