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As well as deft allusions to unexpected writers including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, he works in references to authors, such as TS Eliot, who have paid literary homage to the Conan Doyle canon witness his "grimpen" in
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew Lycett 2011
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On the edge of a grimpen, where is no secure foothold,
AMERICAN DIGEST Vanderleun 2010
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On the edge of a grimpen, where is no secure foothold,
AMERICAN DIGEST 2010
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On the edge of a grimpen, where is no secure foothold,
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Less well known, however, is the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in relating Holmes's exploits contributed a new word to the English language: grimpen.
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It can be said, therefore, that as a common noun grimpen does not exist in the English language.
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Mr. Hall has fallen into a grimpen of his own making by failing to review the continued validity of his sources, and Sherlock Holmes's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, must be credited with adding a word to our native vocabulary.
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More than thirty years after Johnson first noted Eliot's use of grimpen, Trevor Hall in his essay
jinglebelljosie commented on the word grimpen
a marshy swamp area
November 8, 2008
52james commented on the word grimpen
OED has Grimp listed as a rare word, A trans vb to cause to mount; to elevate, haul up (0bs), b) intrans. to clamber, climb. As the French "grimper" is not at all rare, I'd guess T.S.Eliot was thinking of a steep place, where you could only move by tediously careful climbing. "There is no foothold," and you move at the risk of falling. So I would not expect a marshy swamp area would be a grimpen at all. Though when you read an abstruse poem like Eliot's Four Quartets, you have to do a lot of grimping, with no security and no guarantee that any particular reading is secure.
October 23, 2020