Sentence examples for limerick from inspiring English sources

It is hard to imagine even a limerick being written about the scrappy shops and tatty houses that lie to Oxford's east.Yet James Attlee's scholarly, reflective and sympathetic journey up the Cowley Road is one of the best travel books that has been written about Britain's oldest university city.

The rolling rhythms of the first lines of a limerick that carry, instead of a mythical hero such as Hector or Achilles, a young lady from Ohio for a ride make her ridiculous even before the expected calamities befall her.

The origin of the limerick is unknown, but it has been suggested that the name derives from the chorus of an 18th-century Irish soldiers' song, "Will You Come Up to Limerick?" To this were added impromptu verses crowded with improbable incident and subtle innuendo.

May 12 , 1812Highgate, England January 29 , 1888San Remo, Italy Edward Lear, (born May 12 , 1812 Highgate, near London, England died January 29 , 1888 San Remo, Italy) English landscape painter who is more widely known as the writer of an original kind of nonsense verse and as the popularizer of the limerick.

This oft-cited limerick and its companion (see below) can be found in Fleming 1985.

He has two main reasons: First, musical forms often carry their own meanings (think, for example, of the humorous and bawdy connotations of the meter/rhyme-scheme of a limerick).

Other payments went to staff in Waterways Ireland and a college in Limerick.

Lee would have retained his title regardless of Saturday's outcome – Quillin came in over the 160lb limit at Friday's weigh-in – but the 30-year-old from Limerick managed to advance his reputation with yet another signature comeback from the brink.

The Gilt Groupe, for example, agreed to set up in Limerick with IDA support.

"We have known a number of Arab buyers for quite a while," says Lydia Limerick, who runs the branch.

So a team at the University of Limerick in Ireland evolved new signal-timing patterns that minimise the build-up of the disabling charge.