orme, ormes and orms
This last category of being opens up a whole new can of orms. 2017
orms in the brain
orms in the heart
orms in the nose
orms daily in his own mouth
orms, that their feet swell’d
orms like eels, &c.
orms are so many
orms; that therefore was no more than natural 1727
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Orms, who came to us
Orms left us the next day
Orms understood
Orms misunderstood
Orms met the men he did meet
Orms had met a man something like himself
Orms all
Orms, whose name was mis-understood
Orms the whole story
Orms. how could this have happened 1832
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known at present, of the Orms 1912
to Orms, north side Orms to corner Orms 1878
several places were named Orms-by, Orms-ton, Orms-kirk, and others... 1887
Any one acquainted with the legends of the north must be familiar with Lind-orms, and in those of Germany the Lind-wurm is no unfrequent actor. 1828
orme, ormes and orms 1912
ove! abo lent, be to, orms: ly to ted to e wal irral; acebo d 1835
Orms. For heaven’s sake, explain this mystery 1774
The beauteous orms, the dazzling splendours, the breathing odom’s of the East 1818
sources —
- 2017
Kathryn Schulz, “Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them : The relative plausibility of impossible beings tells you a lot about how the mind works. ”
Dept. of Speculation, The New Yorker (November 6, 2017 issue) : 26 - 1727
William Ramesey, A Theologico-philosophical Dissertation Concerning Worms in All Parts of Human Bodies : containing several most curious and uncommon observations of natural productions. : 83 and throughout - 1832
Benjamin Lincoln, Dr. Lincoln's Appeal : With Dr. Woodward’s Letter to Professor Lincoln, &c. : 33 and throughout - 1912
William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York : 100 - 1878
City Documents (Providence, Rhode Island) - 1887
George Chalmers, Caledonia, Or, A Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain from the Most Ancient to the Present Times : With a Dictionary of Places, Chorographical and Philological : 542 - 1828
Thomas Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (Part II) : 271 - 1912
Cutter, ibid. - 1835
The Chinese Repository 4 : 37 - 1774
The Romance of an Hour : A Comedy of Two Acts, as it is Performed, with universal applause, at The Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, written by Hugh Kelly, Esq. : 29 - 1818
The Edinburgh Review 29 : 1
note —
several of these orms, e.g., ex Ramesey 1727 — and many more discarded — were artefacts of OCR misreads, typically of italicized words.
Schulz’s essay on impossible beings — orms mysteriously among them — is brilliant. She is also the author of Being Wrong : Adventures in the Margin of Error (2010)
tags: can of orms; error; errors; orms; worms; Kathryn Schulz