"Incog" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... temper's no' what it used to be in the auld times at the hottle. Aweel! aweel! ye ha' gi'en me yer money, and I'll een gi' ye back gude measure for it, on my side. Mistress Glenarm's awa' in private—incog, as they say—to Jaffray Delamayn's brither at Swanhaven Lodge. Ye may rely on the information, and it's no' that easy to come at either. They've keepit it a secret as they think from a' the warld. Hech! hech! Tammy Pennyquick's youngest but twa is page-boy ...
— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins
... gaze; Graceful, yet simple in attire, You'd take him for a plain esquire; "His acts best speak his praise." That queer, plain, yellow chariot, mark, Which drives so rapid through the park, The servants clothed in gray— That's George, incog.—George who? George-king,{46} Of whom near treason 'tis to sing, In this our sportive lay. Kings like their subjects should have air And exercise, without the stare Which the state show attends; I love to see in ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle |
