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...ported themselves by lying in wait for and robbing blind men’s poodles. ‘MR. FLUMMERY exhibited a twig, claiming to be a veri table branch of that no... ...ical definition the honourable gentleman could afford of the curiosity. ‘MR. FLUMMERY expressed his opinion that it was adecided plant. ‘SECTION B. ...

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...have not the courage of their creeds. Either their creeds are intellectual flummery or they are the solution to the riddles with which the world is st... ... some tout is instantly seeking to pluck one into his par- ticular cave of flummery and orthodoxy. What a rational man means by God is just God. The m...

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...or it that she will be happy enough,’ said Rupert; ‘she has been living on flummery for the last half- year, and you cannot expect her to be contented...

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...“the friend behind phenomena”; that Anglican deity had been rather a vague flummery behind court and society, wealth, “respectability,” and the comfor...

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...d. The English squire who stood by, in his turn compared it to a castle of flummery and blanc- manger. A French captain of a full company declared tha...

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...uty, and letting poor Hal’s child be bred up to Sister- hoods and all that flummery.” “It will just break Angela’s heart,” cried Valetta, with tears i...

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... there are hearts in government offices; and you ought to slip in a little flummery about the emo- tions of the Royalists during the Terror,—might be ...

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...ld have foreseen, there’s always an atmosphere of sentiment and ritual and flummery about Lilias, totally different from what she was used to.’ Colone...

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...lly. I knew that, and she has softened my wilfulness. But there’s too much flummery, and he was a hundred times more than all that. I had rather recol...

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... to be seen in a fine fighting ship. Still, there is a good deal of French flummery about her—brass plates and other gewgaws stuck on all over, like b...

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... What isn’t a day-dream is this: that you and I are going to put an end to flummery—and go!” “Go!” said Ann Veronica, clenching her hands. “For better...

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...ddressed. He knew that for such a man as Sir Nicholas Fitzwhiggin a little flummery was necessary, and that it might be of the easy everyday descripti... .... ’30/9/185-’ There was more in this than in all Sir Nicholas Fitzwiggin’s flummery; more than in all the bishop’s promises, even had they been ever s...

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...was still alive and unhanged, at that day—Bridal Cham ber whose pretentious flummery was necessarily overawing to the now tottering intellect of that...

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...sy cable: we owe all our lives to the undertow of this very lake.” “French flummery!” growled Cap, though he did not care to be heard by Jasper. “Give...

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...the essential into their letters, instead, as he said, of concealing it in flummery. This is a specimen of the way Tom liked to be written to. ...

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...lain old man like me to do among all your lords and ladies, and finery and flummery? I’ll do no such thing.’ ‘Not to oblige me?’ ‘Oblige you? Nonsense...

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...d a good spicing of the decid- edly unintelligible. That was a nice bit of flummery, and went down the throats of the people delightfully. They would ...

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...she has it. Oh! we can whip up the business to a nice little bowl of froth-flummery. But it’s when the Parliamentary voting is on comes the connubial ...

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...rness. The only fault I find with him is that he longs for plate-glass and flummery instead of old Froggatt’s respect- able panes.” “He has become the...

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... all. What a blessing to see a nice clean English potato again without any flummery!” “Ah! I thought so,” said his mother; “they didn’t know how to fe... ...while the rest of the world made much of the bride. “Ellie, the finery and flummery is to be done in Aunt Ellen’s dressing-room,” explained Babie; “bu...

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...stranger to suffering: per- haps—as the creatures do looking for the usual flummery tenderness, what they call happiness; wondering at the ab- sence o...

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...e without an ample breakfast, in which cold meat and hot meat, and oatmeal flummery, wine and spirits, and milk varied by every possible mode of prepa...

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...ster. ‘It’s the same thing, ’ rejoined Sowerby. ‘We all know what all that flummery means. Men in office, Mark, never do 199 Anthony Trollope make a ...

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...ing. Stewed prunes, and baked bullace. Raisins. Dates. Buttered wheat, and flummery. Pistachios, or fistic nuts. Chestnut and walnuts. Water-gruel, an...