Aside from being a folk musician, you'll see him variously described as a folk lorist and an historian. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On a recent un-wintry Wednesday, two days after his latest book arrived on shelves, Calvin Trillin, the 71-year-old writer, humorist and food-lorist, sat in his West Village townhouse looking perplexed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I cannot do better than quote from this great Folk-lorist a few things that he tells us about witches. ❋ Elias Owen (N/A)
Shakespeare's apparent confusion of a May-day with a Mid-summer-night may seem pardonable to the folk-lorist in the light of the fact that various folk-festivals appear to take place indiscriminately on May-day or ❋ Compiled By Frank Sidgwick (N/A)
These are the wise words of a sound folk-lorist, [47] and should be laid to heart by all who take up the study. ❋ Compiled By Frank Sidgwick (N/A)
The charm of Herrick's verses on country joys is deepened -- to the folk-lorist in particular -- by remembering that the rustic ceremonies he commemorates were probably the usual customs observed at Dean Prior in his time. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
The present plan, a subject-index practically, has been adopted with a view to the needs of the anthropologist and folk-lorist. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)
It would doubtless require a skilled folk-lorist to supply full critical notes and parallels; but I subjoin such details as I have been able to collect. ❋ Various (N/A)
In 1889, William Butler Yeats published his _Wanderings of Oisin_; in the same year Douglas Hyde, the scholar and folk-lorist, brought out his _Book of Gaelic Stories_. ❋ Louis Untermeyer (1931)
In 1889, William Butler Yeats published his Wanderings of Oisin; in the same year Douglas Hyde, the scholar and folk-lorist, brought out his Book of Gaelic Stories. ❋ Louis Untermeyer (1920)
They do have some sort of shindy -- not interesting to any one but a folk-lorist. ❋ Various (1915)
-- To the folk-lorist, of course, it is all 'primitive Mediterranean' religion or superstition; but the inner worlds are wonderful and vast, if you begin to have the smallest inkling of an understanding of them. ❋ Kenneth Morris (1908)
Pontius Pilate, which the author frankly sets down as ‘apocriphum’; while the folk-lorist will find a rich field to interest him in a territory hitherto but little explored. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
And thus gradually had I become permeated with the recognition of a region hitherto unknown to me, and that I had always depreciated in others and especially, it now occurred to me, in my friend the old folk-lorist. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
But here again was another instance of the way everything seemed in a conspiracy against me to appear otherwise than ordinary, for in the gleam of the match my watch-glass showed as the face of a little old gray man, uncommonly like the folk-lorist himself, peering up at me with an expression of whimsical laughter. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
What could it have been in the face of the old folk-lorist that made me think of this man? ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
A minute later I found myself in the study, with the old folk-lorist standing opposite. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
I had of course read much concerning the changes of personality, swift, kaleidoscopic -- had come across something of it in my practice -- and had listened to the folk-lorist holding forth like a man inspired upon ways and means of reaching concealed regions of the human consciousness, and opening it to the knowledge of things called magical, so that one became free of a larger universe. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
Much might be said by a "folk-lorist" -- in proportion to his ardour. ❋ Unknown (1897)
It was in the spring when I at last found time from the hospital work to visit my friend, the old folk-lorist, in his country isolation, and ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)
I had [no idea] about the history of this art piece before the artlorist told me [the story] [behind it]! ❋ Earendyl (2023)
