"Dangler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one could dispute my taste, at all events; for Clara Phillips was a universal favourite, though I had remarked that none of the numerous "eligible young men" in the room appeared about her in the character of a dangler. She was engaged to Willingham for the waltz next after supper, and I felt queerish again, till she willingly agreed to dance the next set with me, on condition that I would oblige her so far as to ask a friend of hers to be my partner in the mean time. "She is a very nice girl, Mr. Hawthorne, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... his future ambitious designs in life. The poor little thing believed in him, but Jack said it was very hard for him to be obliged to see his beloved flirting, right before his eyes at the menagerie (for the girl had a taste for natural history, and was there often), with some perfumed dangler who was in love with her pretty face and old Coriander's money. On these occasions, he hated himself for his mean disguise, and found satisfaction in howling at the gay party in such dreadful fashion as sent them quaking from his cage; ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various
... my deah fellah, I don't know who you know, you know. Bai-ey Je-ove! there's Lizzie Dangler. Who's that man she's ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson |
