| 单词 | flummery |
| 例句 | It sounded like a lot of flummery to Drave, but what did he know? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It's all mummery and flummery, and conducted with a winning amateurishness. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z Both were wonderful, affectionate portraits of suburban flummery. Pete Postlethwaite obituary 2011-01-03T18:27:54Z “I think Meghan will cope but she will find some of the flummery difficult to bear.” Famed UK royal biographer says Diana would approve of Meghan 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Twain adopts the persona of the rough, honest, no-nonsense Yankee, determined to be unimpressed by almost everything he sees, all the flummery of European so-called culture. ArtsBeat: Peter Whitfield Talks About the History of Travel Literature 2012-03-14T14:30:34Z His career in flummery and flimflam was launched when he left reform school at age 14 to work as a Coney Island pitchman, then joined Dr. W.H. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Ultimately, Dynamo's brand of streetbound trickery isn't about eloquence or flummery. Dynamo: Magician Impossible – now that's magic 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z Bostridge even refers to the piano part in one Schubert song as “insincere Romantic flummery.” Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z And it raises the question of whether a brand can succeed simply by presenting the goods, without flummery. How to Sell Good, Inexpensive Wines Without Pandering 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z As the British critic Rupert Christiansen wrote of a recent production, “The fierce simplicity of the tale gets obscured by flummery and faux religiosity.” Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z In his biography, Andrew Morton wrote that Diana was “deeply disenchanted with the protocol, the flummery and the artifice” of the family, and “the brittle formality” of royal life. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z All of this flummery is going to irritate another part of a modern state opening of Parliament - anti-monarchy protesters who believe that such royal involvement should be removed from a democracy. King's Speech: The quirks and crowns of the King's State Opening 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Look carefully and some guide to the reign to come will be seen behind the flummery and pomp. King Charles Coronation: The curtain rises on the strangest show in town 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z "But he really just wanted to cut through all the flummery and get people to see him for what he was." Prince Philip enjoyed meeting children because ‘they weren’t impressed by him,’ source says: ‘He loved that’ 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Anything we could do to stop this flummery from clogging our airwaves, inboxes and video streams would probably be worse than the problem itself. Headlong into the mud 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z "The production dispenses with conventional spectacle, colourful costumes and visual flummery," says The Guardian's Michael Billington. Why James McAvoy's Bergerac ditches the Cyra-nose 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Their research is superior–Chris Wallace using slides of actual budget numbers to destroy Trump’s budgetary flummery, Megyn Kelly using tape to demonstrate Trump’s policy reversals. The Republican Party's Trump Slump 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The adopters, meanwhile, chatter on until the next wave of disruption happens, an advance that some of them will reject as unnecessary and possibly dangerous flummery. The medium is the messengers 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Such flummery is costly to grow and likely to attract predators. My pretty maid 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z But despite what one paper called its "flummery" the government spotted advantages to a Royal Charter. Press regulation: The 10 major questions 2013-10-30T00:51:19Z It would have been filled with fruit, flummeries or blancmanges, biscuits, gateaux, jellies and ice cream. Party like it’s 1813 2013-05-10T01:24:59Z There was, of course, plenty of mildly baffling flummery, and I particularly enjoyed seeing the Lord Mayor of London's mourning sword, carried aloft before the Queen and Prince Philip as they walked into St Paul's. The funeral's place in history 2013-04-18T08:29:53Z Glittering prize - the handy-dandy, high-tech carrier provides your base and interface After about half an hour of this flummery, however, control is taken of the carrier and the real gameplay begins. Review - Carrier Command: Gaea Mission 2012-10-02T15:40:28Z Maybe it’s because I’ve just been through a very painful experience, but the Republican flummery on this issue hits me harder than any position taken by either party on any other issue. Republicans and Medicare: A Case of Common Decency 2012-08-17T19:05:24Z Yet there they are, doing the job properly at last, avoiding fanfare and flummery, earning the right to admiration. Euro 2012: England's old guard are doing the job properly at last 2012-06-20T14:27:11Z Dishes included white soup, partridge pie and jelly desserts or flummeries. Party like it’s 1813 2013-05-10T01:24:59Z But it's amazing how almost nothing changes over 115 years once you put your flummery on. Daily Mail parties like it's 1897 2012-06-02T23:05:50Z Guess which one thinks it's all empty flummery, as pointlessly delusional as the monarchy? Britain wins Olympic gold for moaning 2012-06-01T09:46:15Z It is not encrusted, as most modern arenas are, with the flummery of franchises and corporate hospitality, much of which is housed in separate pavilions at ground level. The Olympic Park ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:10Z Let me have the full particulars, and don't try on flummery.' Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z "Nor I of you," said I, "tricked out in your silly flummery." Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z You don't mean what you say one bit, and it is a relief to me to know that it is all flummery--you silly, hot-pated, blarneying Pat! My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z But the sobriety here mentioned is that of dress, not drink; and total abstinence from finery and flummery of fashion is doubtless the chief aim of the promoters of the guild. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z At times, indeed, the task almost exceeded her powers of endurance, and she felt madly spurred to hurl the truth like a bombshell into the midst of the flummery. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z Away with such insulting mockery, such blasphemous flummery! The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z There's a hempen neck-cloth to fit my pipes in Queen Street," he said, plaintively, "and I desire it not, having no mind for flummery. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Very, very many things he condemned as flummery and sickly waste of time. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z It seems impossible to believe that Pitt ever can have trusted301 Newcastle; though he addresses the Duke in his letters with an affected flummery of devotion. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Only the witch-doctors could visit him, and their visits were official and hedged about with much flummery and hocus-pocus. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z I know that this is a superficial judgment in both ways, for Oxford does manage to keep pace with the utilitarian spirit, and at the same time preserve lots of her flummery unchanged. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Besides, I think as father does, that there is enough to do, without spending the time in such flummery. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z I'm a plain, honest ruler of men, and I hate flummery and flattery—particularly when it all comes out of my pocket! The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z In former times sowans or flummery was eaten instead of pancakes. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z The remaining whey is boiled till two thirds are wasted, when it becomes as thick as flummery. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z There is a great deal of flummery about Oxford, but I think if I were an Oxonian, in spite of my radicalism generally, I might vote against all change there. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z A man must have a thick skin to be able to carry off all the flummery of Highness without any feeling of shame. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z The Delhi Durbar of 1911 saw King George V and Queen Mary bedecked in sapphires and rubies lording it over half a million Indian subjects with medieval-style flummery. How the Monarchy Allows Britannia to Make Waves 2011-04-28T10:05:00Z The latter, a very sheepish-looking sort of journeyman, went awkwardly through the usual flummery of passes, and then ensued this dialogue. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z When they have no milk to dilute it with, they add an equal quantity of water to the Syra, and mix the whole with flummery, which mixture they prefer to small beer. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Not a bit of flummery will we have here—no candles or vestments or anything of that sort. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Let's do the thing in style, like Tracy Allen, without any flummery or fluff. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z He had a hearty contempt for the silly flummery, as he mentally described it, practised by Father Cameril, and he hated to know that Paula was enticed by it. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z "That young scamp has been coming over Valentine with his jokes and his flummery," said my lady to herself. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z The rain fell in sheets, and Colonel Ashley wished himself back in camp, despite the flavor of the flummery. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z But, unsurprisingly, legal professionals are less enamoured of her characterisation of the plucky amateur taking on the ritual and flummery of the bench. Could you defend yourself in court? 2011-02-28T12:50:30Z After cheese is made, the whey is boiled and skimmed, which operation is repeated till a sediment forms as thick as flummery. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z The excess of chivalry with which this was uttered did something to compose poor Cynthia; though why such flummery should have imposed upon her I cannot tell. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z ‘O yes; they were often seen on yonder hill, and I was told they were lately seen in Pant Shon Shenkin, eating flummery out of egg-shells, which they had stolen from a farm hard by.’ British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z But then he gave an interview to a local journalist in which, even compared with standard-issue speculation-dampening flummery, he constructed quite a petard – with which he was later to be royally hoisted. Brendan Rodgers prepares for his first return to Watford 2010-09-28T12:46:00Z Other guppies, though, cannot be bothered with all this flummery. Sexual selection: The hunk and the show-off do not always get the girl 2010-06-03T14:01:00Z The meal is boiled slowly in water, being continually kept stirring, till it grows as thick as flummery. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Not I. I’m foreman, and get my wage reg’lar, and I don’t want none of their flummery. The Parson O' Dumford The expense of all this flummery is something cruel. "Pip" A Romance of Youth Or your sisters, kneeling before the little coffins—all that flummery? Deep Moat Grange Yet I rather preen myself upon my success; though Phil has always maintained that I overfed Susan with æsthetic flummery, thus dulling the edge of her appetite for his own more wholesome daily bread. The Book of Susan A Novel This kind of flummery, being mixed with flour, as I have just mentioned, is baked into bread, which proves as tough as rye-bread, but is perfectly sweet and white. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z A virginal thing of simple gauze and flummery, with a frontage of puffings to make up for bust development. Love's Usuries A curtain or some such flummery is blazing. An Amateur Fireman In his senatorial days, I once heard a satirical lady mention him as "the moral flummery member from Massachusetts, quoting Tibullus!" Reminiscences, 1819-1899 No flummery, that leaves a man tired and hungry when he leaves the table. Hildegarde's Harvest On the contrary, the peasants of Finland cram themselves with as many turnips, and those of Scania with as much flummery, as their stomachs can possibly receive. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Add olives, well bruised, in sufficient proportion to flavour; and when thoroughly incorporated, mix the whole with puff paste and flummery made into a mess. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) We really beg pardon of our readers for covering so much space with this flummery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Let no man, nor woman either, consider these observations flummery or verbiage. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 Her trim short skirt, her heelless shoes, her absence of “flummery” aroused the engineer’s admiration and he volunteered, what he had previously declined to give, all possible information concerning his beloved locomotive. A Daughter of the Forest All the time the devilish conviction grew that if he persisted in this flummery he might emerge scatheless from a ghastly ordeal. The Silent Barrier Well, for my part," said honest Martingale, "I don't care about your French flummery—it's all to hide the taste of the meat. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) I don't know what this flummery is all about. The Deaves Affair Tag-rag poured such a monstrous quantity of flummery down the gaping mouth and insatiate throat of the little animal, as at length produced its desired effect. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. He had here no moral support for his just contempt of Popish flummery. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings Nay, no need for you to blush, for I am not going to gush There are plenty who'll indulge in fuss and flummery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. To him, science was just so much flummery, and he didn't want his brain cluttered up with it. The Foreign Hand Tie I say nothing; but there is an aristocracy that cuts its own way through all social flummery, like an eagle among chippen birds. Phemie Frost's Experiences If a guest treated them to flummery, they let him know that they despised his flummery and insisted on asking him questions of a peculiarly intimate character. Changing Winds A Novel Keep the flummery in cups a day before you use it; when you serve it, stick it with blanched almonds, cut in thin slices. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. But what flummery to saddle her with sex! Monday or Tuesday Dutch flummery, jellies, or blamange, if not too rich, are also very strengthening. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Great men are not always wise; even intellectual veterans like Dr. Johnson, and others I can mention, if you only give me time, have their hallucinations, fads, fancies, and flummeries. Our Bessie As Crewe, the man who introduced me to him, said afterwards: "There isn't one particle of flummery in Crondall's whole body." The Message Three ounces of sweet almonds, and one of apricot or peach kernels, make ratafia flummery. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Her name was on men's lips in the same class with this hard-cheeked professor of religious flummery, this mercenary practitioner of an un-medical imposture calculated to cheat the unfortunate by means of delusive hopes. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Keep the flummery stirring all the time, pour it into a bason, stir it till half cold, let it settle, and then put it into a melon shape. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Then you would let her go on with her absurd Ragged schools and such flummery? The Old Helmet, Volume II "I shall be free for a while," she said, "of all the absurd flummery of the palace." Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends “A foolish waste of time,” observed the parlor boarder; “bread and butter is for every day; cake and custards and flummery for high holidays,” she added with quite an air. Five Little Peppers at School "I'm going to dress and put an end to this Hobson-Jobson flummery!" Gold Out of Celebes When boiled enough, pour the flummery into a shallow dish, and serve it up. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families I suppose I must get that holly ribbon and tissue paper flummery. Patty's Success Now, you people must excuse me, for I’m going to get into that flummery bridesmaid’s frock,—and I can tell you, though it looks so simple, it’s fearfully and wonderfully made.” Patty's Social Season Sure enough, when they came to look, there was a great bundle rolled in a sheet under the bed—all lace things and petticoats and ribbons and dressing-gowns and ladies' flummery. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune A loud scraping and jingling announced that the music was there, and put a stop to such flummery as conversation. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Put plenty of bitter almonds into some stiff flummery, and make it of a pale green with spinach juice. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families "Oh, come along, and don't talk flummery to me; you know I can't stand it." Peggy "What's started you to talking all this flummery, Ted?" he asked bluntly, heedless, in true boy fashion, of the vague aspirations and aims of sweet sixteen. Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen She can tell ’em from all our flummery. The Squirrel-Cage She says I've got to have one, and she insists on sewing at home on all sorts of fool flummeries for some dressmaker so I can. Carl and the Cotton Gin When it becomes as thick as cream, wet the melon mould, and put the flummery into it. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Sitting here, all smiles and flummery to my face, and then going away to abuse me behind my back!” The Lady of the Basement Flat All the amulets, charms, gree-grees, fetiches and flummery of the prince were duly bestowed at his sides. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver “Go to, now, what dolts be men!” quoth Mistress Rachel Enville, addressing herself, to all appearance, to the dish of flummery which stood before her. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada It is a most remarkably vivid and varied record of the writer's experiences, set down in a very simple and direct style, without the least effort at flummery and high-falutin. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 When cold, turn the flummery into a dish, and serve with cream, milk, or custard round. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families As for ‘smiles and flummery,’ as you express it, there has been no chance of anything so friendly. The Lady of the Basement Flat It needed to be left in peace and quiet, not be stirred up to listen to what, in her increasing ire, the nurse termed mummery and flummery. The Brentons It consisted of a couple of roast dogs, several dishes of small fish, and a white mixture called pooah, of the consistency of flummery. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures “Bosh!” cried Bob, who did not believe much in sentiment, ‘flummery’ he termed it. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel Though he was not exact in business, the minister's despatches and letters show shrewdness, good sense, and right feeling, with a copious garnish of flummery. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 “None o’ your flummery, Tom; you only wants to put me off my course, you rascal, so as to make me forget what I were a-talking about. Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy Enough of this sort of flummery, my sweet nephew; I don't like it. A Hungarian Nabob In the midst of all the satin and lace flummery, it is pathetic to suffer in silence for the lack of a little beggarly hot water. Etiquette I don't believe in this sort of flummery, no.... One Woman's Life There was no hocus-pocus or flummery; the whole proceeding was as simple as playing dominoes. Caves of Terror He managed in this way to turn out the regulation column of flummery, but I knew it could not last. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Such looking-glasses, sofas, carpets—so much fashion and flummery, that nobody could tell what utility it contained, I never had seen before. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth Still you did pretty well to get the wedding and all ready at the hour I set, even if you did make that awful flummery mistake. The Golden Bird "Number 236" was to be well stocked with an abundance of wholesome food, but there was to be no waste and no "flummery." One Woman's Life "And the best hen takes the money; no flummery, no filigree!" put in Reeves. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul A-la-mode beef; fricasseed chicken; Calcutta curry," read her mischievous father from the bill, as fast as he could read; "macaroni; salsify; flummery; sirup of cream. Dotty Dimple Out West Blood an' flummery! what a night; divil a my finger I can see before me. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Look at that deal of feminine flummery–that dress of silver tissue, the ends of that silken scarf you see below the covering–all those jewels and trinkets! The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem Turtle and every other thing, flummery, jellies, sweetmeats of twenty sorts, trifles, whipped sillabubs, floating islands, fools, etc., with a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches. Woman's Life in Colonial Days "Why, yes," I said, "a barrier against cant, and flummery, and coldness, and pride, and against—why, against your own vanity too." Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Let him either accept the situation, make up his mind to it and stop complaining, or else offer it some effective resistance—sweep the flummery out of his life—clear decks for action. The Real Adventure Flanagan immediately commenced his supper, which consisted of flummery and new milk—a luxury among the lower ranks which might create envy in an epicure. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Generalissimo JOFFRE, on the other hand, he found to be a decent most capable man, without fuss and flummery, doing a distasteful job of work singularly well. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 28, 1917 Queen: Very healthy food, oaten meal flummery with whey, and a griddle-cake; dandelion tea and sorrel from the field. Three Wonder Plays They're not French flummery, either; and there's not a drop of gin, or a flavor of prussic acid, or any other abominable chemical, in one of those contrivances. Real Folks Antonyms: preponderance, deficit, deficiency. balcony, n. gallery, terrace. bald, a. hairless, polled; tonsured; unadorned, literal, undisguised, unvarnished, unqualified; uncorroborated, unsupported, glaring, mere. balderdash, n. flummery, nonsense, jargon, fustian, moonshine, twaddle, fudge. baldness, n. alopecia. Putnam's Word Book I was—not angry; no, tremendously disgusted is the only term I can use—at all this flummery with that body on the bed. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories The great rhetorical art-critic of our own day refers to it in words of disparagement, and in truth it has none of the flummery of modern criticism. Burke Humphreys took an almost childish delight in gold braid and flummery. George Washington Don't you think there must be some wager depending among the little curled imps who hover over us mortals, of how much flummery goes to turn the head of an authoress? Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Associated words: palatine, palatial. palaver, n. cajolery, flummery; conference, debate, talk. pale, a. pallid, wan, colorless, ghastly, blanched, cadaverous, etiolate, ashy; dim, faint, indistinct, obscure. Putnam's Word Book In the whole great universe of shammery and flummery there is no such idea floating. What I Remember, Volume 2 I am sorry he will be disappointed, for he is a fellow quite free from the flummery of his profession. Paul Faber, Surgeon And, besides, coming from the Red Tower of the Wolfsberg, their precious Society of the White Wolf, with its mummery and flummery, filled me with a hot contempt. Red Axe Joe's permission was not very cordial, he was so afraid of girls' flummery, as he called it "She plays backgammon and chess, Joe, and I can promise you she reads beautifully." Emilie the Peacemaker Then they have enclosed theirs with a light, elegant fence, à la Parigina, as though the austere forms of Egypt were compatible with the decorative flummery of the boulevards. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. But the daily life of Mr. J. A. Kensit, like that of any ordinary modern man, is, as a matter of fact, one continual and compressed catalogue of mystical mummery and flummery. Heretics "In my opinion it's the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations." Anne of Green Gables But her father, who is quite as opposed to such flummery as I, says that can be cured. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Now she clothed the naked little creature in one of Thomas `a Becket's snowy, long baby gowns, with its bright blue bows and dainty flummery of ruffles. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson In the denial of all this external flummery he hated, it would leave the soul disengaged and free, able to turn her activities within for spiritual development. The Centaur Thus, just as the German stomach craved the rich flavour of sausage, so the German mind craved the dazzling show of Royal flummery. City of Endless Night They are always ready to help kind or polite people, who treat them well or will give them a glass of milk, or a saucer of flummery. Welsh Fairy Tales Why, by a spoonful of the universal panacea, flattery—in the vulgar tongue, flummery. Tales and Novels — Volume 08 He had been so impatient because I had not gone often enough, that he might make his records, his comparisons, his tests—I don't know what flummery. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Then the Bridal Chamber—the animal that invented that idea was still alive and unhanged, at that day—Bridal Chamber whose pretentious flummery was necessarily overawing to the now tottering intellect of that hosannahing citizen. Life on the Mississippi, Part 8. But all her flummery didn't take me in. Esther Waters Then he thought that a bit of oat cake, a leek, or a bowl of oat meal, whether porridge or flummery, might suit a king. Welsh Fairy Tales I cannot too highly applaud the readiness with which these four gentlemen in black have thrown aside all the fopperies and flummeries which have their origin in a false state of society. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Since I am to be her guardian, I have no notion of swerving from my duty, and letting poor Hal’s child be bred up to Sisterhoods and all that flummery.” Modern Broods Now have I not given you a fine feast of homage,—"flummery" Mr. Hawthorne calls it? Memories of Hawthorne I said them because I felt them, and I hate flummery and thick-headedness. Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Besides, if all the oats were washed away, how could their wives make flummery, without which, no Cymric man is ever happy? Welsh Fairy Tales I said them because I felt them, and I hate flummery and thick- headedness. Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 02 Jane Anne, outside all this flummery, went her own way upon an even keel. A Prisoner in Fairyland Readers will no doubt think that this is official flummery; and so in fact it is. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Horace Walpole gives an amusing description of the flummery which was indulged in every week at Bath Easton under her presidency. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 Now, although she had sold all her butter and cream, she could neither pay her rent, nor have any buttermilk with her rye bread and flummery. Welsh Fairy Tales He contemplated him with blinking eyes, lowered his voice even when making the most trifling remark, and grasped his hand with all sorts of masonic flummery. The Fat and the Thin But alas, he knew by this time that his charming hostess had more flummery about her than anybody else he had encountered—and all of her own devising! The Metropolis But there's too much flummery, and he was a hundred times more than all that. My Young Alcides Your balls and dinners and big shows and coaching meets in Hyde Park, and all the rest of the flummery! Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Still, there is a good deal of French flummery about her—brass plates and other gewgaws stuck on all over, like baubles on a handsome woman. Omoo Tom was no great correspondent, and had drilled his sisters into putting nothing but the essential into their letters, instead, as he said, of concealing it in flummery. The Trial Here mother, who had been sitting quietly by, also with a disapproving expression, entered the discussion: "I knew all that Iolanthe and class flummery would get her into trouble." Missy 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 description. Barchester Towers She seemed to write flippantly about things—but that was just because she hates insincerity and flummery, and the world she lives in doesn't satisfy her. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life She gazed at them, half-feeling the flummery petals against the palm of her hand. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 The English squire who stood by, in his turn compared it to a castle of flummery and blanc-manger. Two Penniless Princesses We all know what all that flummery means. Framley Parsonage A very common way with these petitioners is to begin with a fine flummery about the merits and eminent genius of the person whom they are addressing. Roundabout Papers What's a plain old man like me to do among all your lords and ladies, and finery and flummery? The Heir of Redclyffe 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 description. Barchester Towers “It’s the frills and flummery part of it that frightens me,” he said. All Roads Lead to Calvary That was a nice bit of flummery, and went down the throats of the people delightfully. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 "French flummery!" growled Cap, though he did not care to be heard by Jasper. Pathfinder; or, the inland sea One cannot say "God" but some tout is instantly seeking to pluck one into his particular cave of flummery and orthodoxy. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war Some theologian once spoke of God as "the friend behind phenomena"; that Anglican deity had been rather a vague flummery behind court and society, wealth, "respectability," and the comfortable life. Soul of a Bishop Either their creeds are intellectual flummery or they are the solution to the riddles with which the world is struggling. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war |
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