Citations:unearly

English citations of unearly

• 1860, Richard Sandys, Thoughts on the Present State and Prospects of Legal Discontent‎^[1], number VI, London: V. & R. Stevens and Sons, page 52:

  but then you suddenly leap wide, like a flea, and say that they cannot come to the judge, and the judge cannot go to them, and you suppose it must be tried somehow, but you are in a mighty fix, and there is a lnion in the path, and then, like the unearly bird that you are, you turn out all your bristles and curl yourself round for sleep.

• 1925, The Monthly Service Bulletin‎^[2], volumes 6–8, National Trade Extension Bureau of the Plumbing and Heating Industries, page 3:

  We all know Moran and Mack’s colloquy on the Early Bird, what constitutes it, and how the unearly bird would be only too glad to work if he found any pleasure in it.

• 1965, Senior Scholastic‎^[3], volume 87, number 3, Scholastic Corporation, page 50:

  WHEN I popped into the office, unbright and unearly, on April 21, a tall, husky fellow put down a magazine and drawled, “Good afternoon, Editor.”