"Brummagem" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I hope not, sir. But as I was saying, I and this Jack Bosbury, and the Brummagem Bantam - a very pretty light- weight, sir - drank seven bottles of Burgundy to the three of us inside the eighty minutes. Jack, sir, was a little cut; but me and the Bantam went out and finished the evening on hot gin. Life, sir, life! Tom Cribb was with us. He ...
— The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson
... knock at the door which had made us rise up and start forward to welcome some long absent friend. Indeed in Poole's case, this simile is less over-swollen than in mine, for in contempt of my convictions and assurance to the contrary, Poole, passing off the Brummagem coin of his wishes for sterling reasons, had persuaded himself fully that he should see you in propria persona. The truth is, we had no right to expect a letter from you, and I should have attributed your not writing to your having nothing to write, to your bodily dislike of writing, or, though ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... last week, MR. W.S. LILLY—i.e. W. "SHIBBOLETHS" LILLY—delivered an excellent lecture on the Papal-Italian question, and although at Birmingham, it was by no means a brummagem discourse. But to quote the immortal ballad of Billy Taylor, "When the Captain he come for to hear on't, He werry much applauded what she'd done," and, to apply the lines to the present instance, "When the POPE he comes for to ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 12, 1892 • Various
... of innovation—when Brummagem button-makers affect a taste and elaboration of design—a true gentleman should be most careful in the selection of this dulce et utile contrivance. Buttons which resemble gilt acidulated drops, or ratafia ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 9, 1841 • Various |
