| 单词 | fop |
| 例句 | It surprised him that Chief was something of a fop, with his air of fussy grooming: nails manicured and shiny, black velvet slippers at his feet, a diamond cross around his neck. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Among those overdressed fops and their painted doxys? You might as well go right up on stage. No, I've a better spot for you. Come." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Get away from me, you fop. Where is my mother’s hat?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As you read Birmingham’s book, you realize that the author of “Ulysses” was a sponge and a fop, feckless and irresponsible about money, prone to drunken binges and embarrassingly crude in his sexual enthusiasms. Joyce, ‘Ulysses’ and obscenity viewed in page-turner style “It seems only fitting that I should follow seven seasons of Ron Swanson’s beef with the pudding of Toole’s corpulent fop.” Nick Offerman Joins ‘Confederacy of Dunces’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z There’s a welcome, self-conscious wit in such metamorphoses, as when Mr. Merrick, playing a foot soldier, looks in wonder after the aristocratic fop who has just left the stage, also played by Mr. Merrick. Review: A Nose by Any Other Name in a Hudson Valley ‘Cyrano’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Harris threatens to steal the movie with his portrayal of this vain, preening fop, a hissable baddie whose mug is plastered with a ridiculous, curling handlebar. Seth MacFarlane’s ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Gower’s portrayal of Charlie would be comic relief if not for the fop’s obsession with the details of his gloating than the welfare of the Scotsmen fighting for him. "Outlander" recap: The tragic chivalric romance of "The Battle Joined" 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z On the irregular occasions in which he wears a tie, he tends — trigger warning, fops! — to leave the top button of his shirt undone. Why does Bernie Sanders dress like that? Because he can. 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Richard II is often portrayed as a lisping, effeminate fop. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Watching Christopher Walken fop sleepily through “Hook’s Tango” or Carrie Underwood singing under a tree in “The Sound of Music” made a great many viewers think, Why? A “Rocky Horror” for the “High School Musical” Generation 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z When the rangers refuse to line up for a “fop in silly clothes,” Simcoe makes an example out of one man by breaking his arm, scalping him and putting a bullet in his head. 'Turn: Washington's Spies' recap: Abe resumes his covert work 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z He portrayed an aging, bankrupt London fop who schemes to marry an heiress, only to see his son fall in love with her. Donald Sinden dies; multifaceted British actor of movies, TV and stage “I always loved Oscar Wilde because he was a complete fop,” he said. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z There’s lace and satin enough to please the most ambitious fop. Bewigged ambitions in Taproot’s ‘Bach at Leipzig’ 2013-05-23T20:25:47Z Even if O'Keeffe throws in a caricatured French fop and a couple of stage Irishmen, he shows the rural clergy to be jovially biddable. The Poor Soldier 2010-07-01T20:45:00Z The royals here are just fops who, with or without Moses, might have died out on their own, of inbreeding or ennui. REVIEW: Don't Let Your People Go See Exodus: Gods and Kings 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Politics aside, we hope a screenwriter will dare to consider the ultimate spy-movie twist: making the CIA top dogs heroes instead of fops and sociopaths. Safe House: Can Denzel Washington Ever Be a Bad Guy? 2012-02-09T16:00:14Z He is very funny when he digresses, which is often, into discussions of his own technique – such as his bricklaying mime looking like a game of "fop tennis". Comedy gold: Rob Newman's History of Oil 2013-05-03T14:59:15Z The arch verse no less than the ruffs and pantaloons too often turn Cyrano into a preening fop, which is exactly what he isn’t. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Also checking in is a caddish fop bent on freeloading and womanising. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z Crimson trousers, a national in-joke in Britain as well as an American preppy staple, once again made a valiant attempt to break through among fops on these shores this summer. Men In Red Pants: Stuck in Old Cultural Baggage 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z They were invented by 15th-century fops who sat around amusing themselves with terms like a “murder” of crows, a “parliament” of owls or an “ostentation” of peacocks. From a giggle of girls to an infirmary of punchlines Mr. Jones is a fop; his attire Shows the flair to which many aspire, But with haute couture tweeds From Milan, he exceeds What his ditch-digging job would require. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.) They would seem precious, more appropriate for fops like Frasier and Niles from the old sitcom “Frasier,” whose connoisseurship was used to connote fastidious vanity. Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z This 1836 work — in which a witless fop is assumed to be a powerful state functionary by corrupt politicians in the provinces — infuses scathing satire with giddy surrealism. A Giddy ‘Government Inspector,’ Restaged by the Red Bull Theater 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z These lines, for example, seem to evoke a police raid on a Vampire Weekend karaoke contest: Duke seizes Florence & the diphthong town, Quite a surprise to young fops & leeches. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z Pope's rhetoric rises to a pitch as he castigates the hypocrisy of the "fops" who always praise the latest play, and the loquacious ignorance of the preferment-seeking clergy. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z “Harlequinade” tracks the efforts of the rascally Harlequin to marry Columbine, whose father, wishing her to wed a rich old fop, keeps her locked up. Review: ‘Harlequinade’ Returns to New York City Ballet 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Which she must’ve known, because within months she was teasing me back, calling me “straight fairy,” “fop,” and “buttercup”—saucy! “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Inside the house we meet a familiar cast of fops and eccentrics, headed by Michael Coleman's splendidly bonkers Grandfather. The Nutcracker – review 2012-12-23T00:06:43Z Topi Lehtipuu charts Tom's transformation from callow youth to fop with credible naivety, which makes his final descent into insanity all the more tragic. The Rake's Progress 2010-08-09T21:01:00Z Creel, infusing every line reading with delectable originality, plays the Prince as a preening fop who excuses his behavior by explaining to Cinderella late in the musical that he’s meant to be charming, not sincere. Review: The Tony-nominated 'Into the Woods' revival — maybe the best in my lifetime — lands in L.A. 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott responded by dismissing the former envoy as a “red-socked fop” — a reference to his penchant for flashy hosiery. Christopher Meyer, Vocal British Envoy to the U.S., Dies at 78 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z A former deputy prime minister, John Prescott, branded Mr. Meyer a “red-socked fop” and joined others calling for him to be punished for spilling insider stories of British leaders. Christopher Meyer, British envoy to U.S. amid buildup to Iraq War, dies at 78 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z It led to him being described as a "red-socked fop" by Labour's former deputy prime minister John Prescott. Ex-ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer dies at 78 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The Big 12 was next with four teams, though it marked the second straight week the league didn't have at least one team in the fop five. Auburn, Gonzaga stay 1-2 in AP Top 25; Texas Tech up to 9th 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Even though he’s a fop, we instinctively identify with the victim. A sumptuously painted swindle “The Good Lord Bird,” meanwhile, has fun not just with Brown but also with Douglass, played by Daveed Diggs as a bit of a self-absorbed fop. These series take us a step closer to slavery not being about race, but about America 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z A tracker and his entourage help a fop try to beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific Ocean in 1804. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z As a painter, she saw the part of the surface that revealed the inner man — the bourgeois fop within the fiery revolutionary. Opinion | Lessons From My Grandma on Art, Sex and Life 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z The artist’s virile exemplars helped liberate gay men from society’s cheap assignations — as mentally disturbed fops mincing out roles as faux women. An L.A. home where homoerotic artist Tom of Finland lived is a shrine to his legacy 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z On a whim I sent off an application to the work experience programme at fop four accounting firm, KPMG, knowing full well that dozens of people would be too. The homeless teen who studied by candlelight 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The most over-the-top delivery since that fop in the top hat banged on for an hour in the House of Commons last night. Ashes 2019: England v Australia fourth Test, day one – live! 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z He was the fop — a man who appreciated style and iconoclasts. Perspective | The genius of Tom Wolfe’s white suits 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z I've got the beard but not the belly or the flip fops. Real ale drinkers asked to embrace change 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Even more, the only British character in the musical, which is performed mostly in rap verse, is George III, whom Miranda has written as a jumped-up, flamboyant fop. Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘Hamilton is an insane idea, but the story works’ 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z A variant is the argument that Trump’s supporters are real Americans while his critics are elitist fops. Opinion | Trump will never be presidential — and the GOP knows it 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Looking at Rush, it’s easy to see the iconic face of Albert Einstein, especially once a chaotic fop of gray hair is added to his head. A 'Genius' Geoffrey Rush talks art, science and emojis 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z He administered a questionnaire to 150 Stanford and Berkeley students, asking them questions like: Which sounds faster, “fip” or “fop”? Leben found a consensus. The Weird Science of Naming New Products 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Not fops, grandees, and pretenders, but the undercutting of the people, the danger to democracy. Fear of a Mad King Jeb 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z One of the characters, Lord Dundreary, was a comic fop with prodigious side whiskers. The great Victorian beard craze 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Quentin brought up that after years and year of posing as the fop Don Diego de la Vega, he has kind of become that character. Comic-Con 2014: Quentin Tarantino on the Django-Zorro crossover 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Hair is all soft fop, cheeks are windburned and rosy. Fashion by numbers: Burberry Prorsum spring/summer 2014 2013-07-23T11:53:15Z There is less acoustic substance for “fip” than there is for “fop,” the pronunciation of which causes the jaw to drop and the tongue to lower, creating a heavier, more powerful sound. The Weird Science of Naming New Products 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Having written recently on the changing nature of fear in batting, this seemed like a piece of Machiavellean genius worthy of Weaving's lofty fop. Fear and batting in Bodyline: reassessing the devastation of England's tactics in the 1932-33 Ashes 2013-03-13T12:44:39Z Big with the promise of a mad career: With cash and consequence to lead the way, A fool by night and more than fop by day!' Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z Dismiss the train of fops and fools, And learn to live by wisdom’s rules. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z This ridiculous thing would not have happened if that silly young fop had not fastened the trap-door. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Be set down for a fool, a lazy rascal and a fop, and it is easy enough to take by surprise those who think they have the whip-hand of you. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z The peer, the scholar, the fool, the fop, Could learn deportment, high-class, tip-top, From a Dancing Girl in a Bauble Shop— At least so thinks Mr. H. A. Jones. Punch, or the London Charivari, October 28th 1893 2012-04-05T02:00:37.137Z He was a dandy—fop—macaroni—toff—whatever you choose, too; in a tarnished and down-at-heel way. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z But the poor fop's squeals showed that little cruelty would be needed to draw from him all he knew. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z At seventy-two he was still a fop and still a gallant. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z For Gilbert Forsyth, a fop to all appearances and a lazy dude, was in reality a man of action. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z Has the man, the turgid fop and brute, whom I criticised her and all her sex for caring about, left her, then? Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z The fops, the wits, the macaronis, the bloods, the Corinthians—all had discovered Peg long before this time. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The dude, the swell, the dandy, the fop, the spark, the macaroni, the blade, the popinjay, the coxcomb,—these are butterflies of different summers. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z If love no more shall bend his bow, Nor point his arrows from thine eye, If no lac'd fop, nor feathered beau, Despairing at thy feet shall die. A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z DANDY, a word of uncertain origin which about 1813-1816 became a London colloquialism for the exquisite or fop of the period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Popinjay, pop′in-jā, n. a parrot: a mark like a parrot, put on a pole to be shot at: a fop or coxcomb. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z He is a fop, and we would not suit each other. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Better to cast her lot with the honest young Catholic tradesman, who attends to his religious duties, is temperate and steady, forgetting altogether that he neither dresses like a fop nor poses like a Chesterfield. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z The phrase seemed to me a very accurate description of the fop, and I assented to it with great cordiality. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Esquire is something a regular guy can open up without feeling like a frat boy or a fop. The Media Equation: How Esquire Survived Publishing?s Dark Days 2012-01-23T00:39:34Z He is, besides, something of a fop and a fine gentleman, and all his relations with his young and old master, with Simo and the Banker, are conducted with perfect urbanity. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z "Nevertheless," said Lettie, "he is a mean fop, and I detest him." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Thus whirling round, together draws, Fools, fops, and rakes, for chaff and straws. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z A week later he came to her completely rehabilitated—an elderly looking fop swinging a cane and bristling with enthusiasms. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z In the year 1743 my youth and my success on the stage procured for me much attention from young fops and elderly profligates, among whom, however, I found frequently a few better men. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Nothing was left for her, nor had been for some time, but the vapid, vulgar inanities of aristocratic fops, all equally commonplace in their tastes, their speech, and their unfathomable vanity. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Without being at all a fop, he had a soldier's love of splendor, and he saw nothing effeminate in the bolts of rainbow clippings which men were invited to use for shirts. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z There he was, no better than the chief eunuch of a Persian harem with authority over women and the power of lock and key against intrusive fops. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Clothes and appearance had more and more become a fetish with him until he had developed into a fop. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z "If there is one thing in nature I shrink from more than another, it is a fop, and a fop in the pulpit is beyond endurance." Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z The lover of France was a true epicure as well as a fop. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z The two fops seemed inclined to turn his dress into ridicule, for they were afraid that he intended introducing the fashion into Hamburg; but he took no notice of them. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z I think so: to be sure, a few of our more conservative fops hold that green should never appear before the Queen's birthday. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The sailors in their foreign pageantry, with the hat upon three hairs; and the fops, the merchants, clerks, walked in groups, bowing to all as they passed. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z Poets make characters as salesmen cloaths, We take no measure of your fops and beaus. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z Others, again, picture the young fop just back from Paris, clad in strange garments, praising foreign manners, so affected as to disregard his mother-tongue. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Our handsome houses are our misfortune, and our splendid equipages; our beautiful villas on the Elbe and the Alster, and all the braggadocio of our young fops. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z Do we try to educate their social affections morally and intellectually—strive to make our houses attractive to sensible people, to give our sons distaste for profligates, and our daughters disgust for fops and fools? The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z "A fop and an idler!" he murmured mentally. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z This was the first time, in years, that Eleanor and she had had words, and that horrid little fop was the cause of it! Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z Five feet tall he was, and a more conceited old fop of a fellow I never did see. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z One is a dignified senator, the other a fop; one a true Catholic, the other a heretic; one is cleverness itself, the other a water-burner. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z "I am not a combination of a fop and a parson, if you mean that." The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Resign her—to that tippling dilettante, that flamboyant fop and fool who had drowned his success in a bottle? The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Come, maidens, buy; nor judge my fruit From beauty’s bait—the skin; Nor think, like fops, with gaudy suit, They’re dull and crude within. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z It is only the fop of shallow mind who invites attention by his dress. Successward A Young Man's Book for Young Men 2011-08-15T02:00:27.860Z We won't let ourselves be eaten in kasha by these fops, these parasites; and when necessary you, gentlemen, will bear witness how it all happened, and that he challenged us himself. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z His costly revels gained an envied fame, Where shallow fops, and women like them came. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z Tho’ this be fancy, still it serves to shew, That Wisdom’s sons have lov’d Columbia’s pride; And shall, while waters round our island flow, Tho’ fools and fops its healing breath deride. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z He was less of a fop and more of a man, than when he tossed his baton so airily before his drum corps at the annual drill. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z If it's a fop you'd have me be, I suppose the rest could probably go something like '. . . begging to be kissed. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Roused by him, the people were actually protesting against the newest form of English tyranny, and they even dared to scream insults at the gilded fop as he drove about the city. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Death will fop off your ring-finger, all swollen with the betrothal ring. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Gone is the scurvy majesty Rush exuded in earlier episodes; now he growls like a Regency fop with dyspepsia. Johnny Depp's Pirates Sinks on the Riviera 2011-05-14T23:02:38Z Nero has a shocking head; Caligula looks an empty-headed fop; but I gazed admiringly on the grand features of my guide, philosopher, and friend—Marcus Aurelius. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z My rough life does not fit me for playing the part of a dangling fop, or uttering canting lies about religion. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The riotous fops gave themselves a rendezvous for the next day before the new Opera-House. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Also that a man should go about in a sack rather than be a fop and waste time and money on dress. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Posing fops have railed against the hardships which beset noble ambition. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z This book was called the "Greenland Lawsuits," a queer title for a collection of essays on theology, family pride, women, fops, and the like. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z Leave the joust to Norman fops, say I, neighbour Oswald, and their tilting methods to our hardy pikemen, who will know how to deal with them, never fear. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z I am not the empty-headed fop that you would believe. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z That is her favourite German minister, the young Prince Kaunitz—a silly fop! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Each of those fop five brands showed gains of at least 1 percentage point but Toyota, which gained 0.4 percentage point, Polk said. Ford tops in auto customer loyalty: Polk 2011-03-31T16:58:08Z Even Harry laughed when I lost my temper in describing the impudence of a young fop who had bought his way into the chorus. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z "Just so; in short, to be blas� is the heartsickness of a fop." Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Her world was made up of sycophants, of flatterers, of pleasure-loving fops. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z There was a fop among Lord George's acquaintance, given to telling laughable stories, partly in French. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Etheredge paints with a light, faint hand, but it is from nature, and his portraits of fops and beaux are simply unexcelled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z As I live, Answer'd as I could wish, how the fops gape now! Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Dandies there are none, in aught of outward appearance, for the arrangement of the hair is the only latitude allowed to the invention of the would-be fop. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z A truer light comedy began with Sir George Etherege, who mirrored in 631 his fops the gaiety and insolence of the world he knew. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z But he is a brainless, selfish, cold-hearted fop, who abuses me even while he eats my meat. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z The fop, the idler, the incompetent, to aspire to her! The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Mart Walters was a fop and a braggart. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z I certainly never expected to be mainly criticised for being what I am not, a handsome fop; but this assertion is at the bottom of all the criticism. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z On the topmost spire Of yonder Gothic poplar Sits a cardinal fop, In a coat of matchless red, And a beak of shining ivory. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Patches and make-up were used by the fops, and swords and sticks carried, the latter being very high, to 46 inches. Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers 2011-01-11T03:00:34.680Z The military officer in him came to the surface and endeavoured to ape the effeminate gestures of the fops of the Guard. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Nay," said Sir Courtley Flutter, who was an ancient fop of the first water, "'Fore Gad, my lords, 'tis indeed perfect paradise sent down upon us poor worldlings here. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z And like all cons, the truth will eventually out, and destroy the intellectual fops who sought to destroy us with their pseudo-science. Why Scientists Are Losing the Public-Relations War 2010-03-18T13:19:00Z A fop!—faugh!—who cares for anything of the dandy or exquisite species?—A braggadocio—another Munchausen! who kills trouts by the gross, and men by the dozen—who shoots on the wing—e.g. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 For Heaven's sake, have done; and tell me, if you can, who those two fops of fellows are at the foot of the room? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Well might the poor girl’s heart beat as she hastened on; for it seemed as if, through the persecution of a fop, her prospects in life were to be blighted at the outset. By Birth a Lady And, as he slept, came swaggering by, the gay fop—the gallant of the city—the tavern-haunter—the ruffler—and the bully. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z When I meet the fop I shall tell him so.” The Great Mogul She had seen picturesque-looking men—dandies, fops—but this was the first time she had ever seen a noble and magnificent-looking man. Love Works Wonders A Novel A well-meaning, manicured young fop wholly surrounded by men who knew what they wanted!” The Valiants of Virginia And therewith commanded two soldiers to lead me to the Governor, giving them the book to take with them: for indeed this fop, as I at once did note, could neither read nor write himself. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim I had expected to hear a fop of some sort deliver dicta on the proper angle of holding a fork or inside information as to the most aristocratic set in college. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew "Why, really, Ma�tre R�n�, I no longer recognize you," said Henry, "you are so gallant that you far outstrip every court fop." Marguerite de Valois "What's the use of all this talk?" lisped a languid-looking epicurean fop, who, sated with dissipation, at twenty-five found life as empty as a sucked orange. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs “Hasten to the garden,” said Maxtli, impatiently, “your hopeful pupil is there, and that rhyming fop is with her.” Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 He is no fop, no lady-killer, but a man whose affections can be relied on, and who expects a woman to love him for the qualities of his mind and the truthfulness of his heart. Rambles in Womanland "There's nothing of the popinjay about him, nothing of the modern military fop of Berlin or Dresden, men who are, in my estimation, the very acme of bad breeding and degenerate idiocy." Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England Do you see this cloak, this plume, and this doublet?" said the duke; "they belong to Monsieur de la Mole, one of my gentlemen, a fop of the highest type. Marguerite de Valois Were his visits to the Catacomb known to this fashionable fop? Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs She is equally happy in her villains, her fools, her fops; indeed, in painting these latter species Miss Edgeworth is unrivalled. Maria Edgeworth For some people he is an enigma, for others a clever comedian, a maniac, a bore, or a fop. Rambles in Womanland Many men are fops in their youth who tone down wonderfully when they get old. Under the Mendips A Tale My Lord Tollington—a Lord of the Bedchamber, a dissolute old fop—very amusing to very young men, but intolerable to all who have seen anything themselves. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) Immodest discourse will ever offend A man of good sense if he is prudent’s friend A lady of sense disgusted will be With the fop that is vain or maketh too free. The Independent Statesmen, and Liberal Landlord or a respectful tribute to T. W. Coke, M.P. for the County of Norfolk Hear me, young fop," hissed Pigavetta, "my patience is now at an end. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Her silence is then taken for a tacit acceptance, and the fops, emboldened, make an open declaration of love. Rambles in Womanland "He was one who gave himself little concern about state affairs,—an easy fop that fluttered about the Court, caring for little above the pleasures of his valueless existence!" Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience Cockscomb! there’s food for discussion in that—fops, beaux, dandies, coxcombs—surely. English Costume She unconsciously drew herself up at the thought of facing that withered fop. Ewing\\'s Lady "What a fop!" whispered Jack, with a glance at the peer. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly This is called 'The Actions of Alcibiades:' Alcibiades, brilliant, careless, dashing, engaging fop, guarded Hellas in jeopardy, king-like led many nobles on. Hildegarde's Harvest Tall, slender, not handsome but superb—so superb that Cicero mistook him for a fop from whom the republic had nothing to fear—at seventeen he had fascinated pirates. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The captain's name was Francisco de Saucedo, but we always called him the gallant, from his extravagance in beautifying his outward person, being altogether a perfect fop. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. Nay, madam, my nose could not mistake him; for I smelt the fop by his pulvilio, from the balcony down to the street. The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee "That old fop's temper, perhaps, is hard to bear with," said he, carelessly. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Would it have proved a trifle, if I had thrown one of those gold-laced fops out of the window into the court? The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago But this was a bit of a fop, Adonis, dragoon—so Venus remained tête-à-tête with him. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 She must never suffer a fop to have any occasion for a boast. Maids Wives and Bachelors Sir H. And all the fops and fiddlers in Europe——But the use of your swimming girdle, pray sir? The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee Three signs of a fop: the track of his comb in his hair; the track of his teeth in his food; the track of his stick behind him. Ancient Irish Poetry There had been men of parts among her acquaintances: soldiers, merchants, clergymen, writers, financiers, and fops galore. The Song of the Wolf Act�on also smiled, with the cynical smile of an Athenian, as he observed the crudeness with which these young fops copied their distant models. Sónnica Cowper, in his poem Conversation, has the couplet: “The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.” Minor Poems by Milton Lady L. How easily is the vanity of fops tickled by our sex! The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee The boy is not to turn fop, or be quarrelsome; at the same time not to take an affront. The Tatler, Volume 3 Her first venture was a fashionable fop, her second an Antinous of the wilderness, her third was now a stage Othello. Eyes Like the Sea "He is not a fop," says Monica, indignantly, and then she catches sight of her lover's face, and something in it awakes within her a prescience of coming evil. Rossmoyne Soon after this came ranting fustian in, And none but plays upon the fret were seen, Such daring bombast stuff which fops would praise, Tore our best actors' lungs, cut short their days. Old and New London Volume I Colonel S. Why, your sex is the vanity of fops. The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee How different it is from the soft, sweet nonsense of fashionable fops; the effusive gush of poetical dudes. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Such flowers of rhetoric as "literary scavenger," "purse-proud fop," "half-educated boy," &c., were thrown around as thickly as though the Flower Girl of the Fejee Islands herself had crossed the path of clerical criticism. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 Now, instead of himself, this fop had hauled in the fat baker's money. Jena or Sedan? I should be sorry you were an egregious fop; but I protest that, of the two, I would rather have you a fop than a sloven. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing "Who the devil's that silly fop?" he demanded, jerking his head. Coquette Meanwhile, divine worship might be going on in the chancel, unobserved unless some fop wished to make himself conspicuous by joking with the choir boys. An Introduction to Shakespeare Return to Paris, stay among your women, take off your mail and put on the silken armour of fops.” Legends & Romances of Brittany He describes these Horonites of wit as “magnificent fops, whose talents reach but to the adjusting of their perukes.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors All good; but turn the other side, And see the smirking beau displayed; The pompous strut, exalted air, And all that marks the fop, is there. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. It is odd that Pepys condemned him for a fop; odd, though natural enough when you see Pen’s portrait, that Pepys was jealous of him with his wife. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) A few frivolous fops and other foolish men still wear corsets. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 He would have shared Hotspur's contempt for the fop who vowed that "but for these vile guns he would himself have been a soldier." George Brown "The doctor is a mollycoddle and George is a fop." The Romance of a Plain Man But then, the weak will cannot hide Th' inherent vanity and pride; And thus he acts the coxcomb's part, As dearer to his poor vain heart: Nature's born fop! a saint by art!! My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Arrived there, Don Luis entered the parlor in which the players were, walking noisily, and giving himself the airs of a fop. Pepita Ximenez Sometimes a young woman would tiptoe up to the box where the wire ended and say the most absurd things to her favorite fop down-town; this was often overheard. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 They've forbidden whatever comes from France— But I have ordered secretly from Paris, From the best houses—Oh! my fop shall smile!— L'Aiglon Though something of a coxcomb himself, he has no mercy on the fop turned politician and theologian. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 Was it not the fashion of the day for the actresses to take lovers, or for the fops to have an opera girl or a comedienne? The Strollers Chesterfield, regarded as a fop in England, was a daring, steady, and subtle governor of the unruly spirits of Ireland, in one of the most hazardous periods. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 A fop in company, wanting his servant, called out: "Where's that blockhead of mine?" The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. His lordship was at home to dinner at three o'clock to receive his guests; and we may sit down to this meal, like the Barmecide's, and see the fops of the last century before us. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges "And loving her as you profess, you are striving to render that niece miserable for life by uniting her with one whom you admit to be a fool, a coward, and a vain fop." An Old Sailor's Yarns Gay, animated, conscious of his attractions, the fop hovered over the young girl, an all-pervading Hyperion, 58 with faultless ruffles, white hands, and voice softly modulated. The Strollers What had he in common with the rest of the company—the fops and flirts, the dancing men and dancing women? The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 What Butterfly is this we have here!—I suppose it is the fop, Frankton mentioned. The Politician Out-Witted Quite different from the affected young fops of the city. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Chris, who had been not a little overawed at seeing Claggett Chew, could not restrain himself at the sight of this fop. Mr. Wicker's Window Unhappily a clique, composed of a few fools and fops, overshadows the others. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 And at this the poor old fop should have seen that she would contradict anything that he said. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Explain in note how all warmth approaching blood-heat spoils fops and flounders. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 The lettered fop now takes a larger scope, With classic furniture, design'd by Hope. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance And turning on his heel, followed by the sauntering, giggling fop, the pair picked their way along the wharf and disappeared. Mr. Wicker's Window For every fop will freely peep At majesty that is asleep. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II I’m going to search every corner in the valley until I find this fop. The Tale of Jolly Robin To his surprise he saw that the light-heeled fop who had accompanied the king was retracing his steps in the direction of the bridge. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama Who, with fantastic pruning-hook, Dresses the borders of his book, Merely to ornament its look— Amongst philosophers a fop is: What if, perchance, he thence discover Facilities in turning over? Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance My dear uncle, and Your Honour the Chamberlain, is it fitting for you gentlemen to meddle with this fop? Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 In the time of the Commonwealth she commenced her career of gallantry, and terminated it under Anne, by marrying, when a great-grandmother, that worthless fop, Beau Fielding. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) And, strange to say, ladies dwelling in luxurious ease join with the fops of society to cast contempt upon the earnest aspirations of woman for the possession of her just rights. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In the midst of his own circle of fops and silly women, he utters his shallow conceits with all the pompous assurance of a pedant. Public School Education The Chinese, indeed, though supposed to be a grave nation, are remarkably fond of personal display; few countries abound more with fops. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 And so the wiser heads dared not resist the fops, and the whole nation feared them as some pestilence, for within itself it already felt the germs of disease. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 There is a pensée of Pascal's to the effect that a fop carries on his person the evidence of the existence of so many people devoted to his service. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life “Oh God! they will go above three thousand; if they do—” “Twenty-seven hundred dollars!” bid the fop Marigny. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The "prankish fop" and "graceless fellow"—whose affection had indeed been hitherto no great compliment to a woman, being lightly caught and as lightly lost—was to his own surprise falling very honestly in love. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) Rather under the middle height and slightly built, he had apparently been little accustomed to severe or protracted exertion, whilst everything about him bespoke the petit ma�tre, if not the fop. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Her godmother's nephew was a fop: she intended to burn the book which he had given her, so that not the slightest thing should remain to remind her of him. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen To draw swords for trifles had become the obligatory accompaniment of good manners; and as gallantry had its finished fops, so the duel had its refined rufflers. Political Women, Vol. 1 The fop, the fool, little knows the keen scrutiny with which the gay creature behind her fan is taking stock of his feeble preferences, is preparing to play upon his feebler aversions. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) It was one of the man’s vanities to play the part of a fop, to disguise his restless force and eager brain beneath the vapid punctilios of a man of fashion. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 He spoke to the lieutenant who had headed our party, drawling out his words in a fashion absurd in a London fop, but disgusting in the commander of a man-o’-war. Athelstane Ford She looked at the stalwart young man, so skilfully frying the flapjacks, and contrasted him with the effeminate fops she had met on Fifth Avenue.'... The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Let there be no nauseous flattery and no sickly sentimentality Leave the former to fops and the latter to beardless school-boys. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies She stoops to conquer, and it is no wonder that the fop and the fool go down. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Famous beauties flitted hither and thither, beckoning languid fops with their 102 alluring eyes. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 If you be mocked by this conceited lover, Your former victories will naught avail; Your honour's lost if this pert fop prevail. Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx Though once a puppy, and a fop by name, Here moulders one whose bones some honour claim; No sycophant, although of Spanish race, And though no hound, a martyr to the chase. Anecdotes of Dogs "Listen to that old man sawing wood," one gaily-dressed young fop laughingly jested to his companion. The Unknown Wrestler Any brainless little fop, any effete dandy, is sure of a welcome, provided he is known to certain circles and can help her to scramble into a little more vogue. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) It is not strange that the public withhold their confidence from the fop, and bestow it upon the industrious. The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. The scholar, of his learning vain, Beholds the fop with deep disdain: The fop, with spirit as discerning, Looks down upon the man of learning. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) Then, it is the fashion to be learned, and the fops of literature, who must "follow the fashion," of course, get wisdom as quickly and easily as possible. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 In his eyes was an expression of sympathy, which changed at once to intense anger at the act of the two heartless fops. The Unknown Wrestler His voice was naturally low and grumbling; yet he could tune it by an artful climax, which enforced universal attention, even from the fops and orange-girls. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 During the reign of Louis XV., examples of effemination crowded into the court and vied with the royal fop in the splendor of their raiment and effeminacy of their bearing. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire "Stand out of my way, boy, or I'll cane you," exclaimed the incensed fop. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets What a fop that Mr. Carleton is—I don’t know what scented powder he uses, but it perfumed the whole room. The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago Staid burghers walked soberly along, fops strutted, bullies swaggered, gentlefolks went in fitting dignity, and beggars whined for alms at the corners of the narrow lanes that, between the houses, led down to the river. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea What is a butterfly? at best He’s but a caterpillar drest; The gaudy fop’s his picture just. Graded Memory Selections Its proximity to the Court attracted all the fops and beaux, and it was the resort of fashionable and gay young idlers. The Strand District The Fascination of London In the light of later customs and fashions I fear that I was something of a fop, though I carried neither spy-glass nor the two watches sacred to all fops. The Reckoning To which the lady retorted he was a vain, silly fop to make boast of a fruit he had never tasted. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country His father, a born fop, a boulevardier by adoption, cultivated habits that seemed to follow the mechanical laws of those clockwork manikins that ingenious horologists contrive for the amusement of children, big and little. A Son of the Immortals This fellow is no fit mate for our Pen, a stranger whom nobody knows! a languid fop! a pranked-out, patched and powdered puppy-dog! The Honourable Mr. Tawnish Now view the beaus at Will's, the men of wit, By nature nice, and for discerning fit, The finished fops, the men of wig and muff. The Strand District The Fascination of London He's never seen with soldiers, nor with fops, But with the schoolboys how he jumps and hops. A Phenomenal Fauna But however the consulting a looking-glass gives to men, in general, the air of fops or coxcombs; it is to those who would make a figure in dancing a point of necessity. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing At first the use of tobacco was confined to fops and the hangers on at ale houses and taverns but afterwards by the "chief men of the realm." Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Pray not the fop,—half powder and half lace,— Nice as a bandbox were his dwelling-place; He's the gilt paper, which apart you store, And lock from vulgar hands in the escritoire. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Wits and fops crowded to the meetings of the new Society. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 A new Kaverine Eugene mine, Dreading the world's remarks malign, Was that which we are wont to call A fop, in dress pedantical. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse The young fop took no care whatever of his lady. Peter the Priest This work describes the fops and men of fashion of its time, and shows how popular the custom of tobacco taking had become. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce "Then I must wait, I suppose," mused the fop. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock But of all the varied assembly the strangest figures must have been the beaux and exquisites, in all their various degrees of "dappers," "fops," "smart fellows," "pretty fellows," and "very pretty fellows." A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Her Grandison was in the Guard, A noted fop who gambled hard. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse The newspapers occasionally mentioned him as a dandy, a fop, a whimsical, irresponsible creature, yet one whose vagaries were not entirely without interest. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 And I am in the power now of such a court fop, whose only idea is dress and show. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story "Then he is dead!" exclaimed the fop, with a new gleam of hope. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock If you enter the world ignorant and awkward—and the greatest genius is awkward if ignorant—you will find the mere fops of the day pass you in the course. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Some in their native costumes looked as statuesque and beautiful as the ancient Greeks; others as ridiculous as a modern fop. Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians "You floundering fop, it will blast this town flat!" Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas Now, if he had been more of a fool, like a red Indian or an old-fashioned fop, he would have affected a stoical indifference, for fear of showing his ignorance. The Gypsies "I was there; but it seems that I came down just in the nick of time," replied the little fop. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock No, no," replied his companion with well-affected modesty; "I a fop! The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Their use was viewed as an attempt to become aristocratic, and those who dared adopt it were looked upon as fops and mongrel seamen. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Governed by this idol, our beau has a cuff that, for a modern fop, would furnish fronts for a waistcoat, and a family fire-screen might be made of his enormous bag. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency I curled the edges of my book indifferently; I am not a fop, I hope, but—others have said the same. Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) "Leopold wouldn't do the fair thing, and divy with Stumpy and me," said the little fop, when he had finished his story. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock "Well, well," he said; "we have all a touch of the fop in our youth." John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Reaching up, she thrust a flower behind his ear, as a young fop of the nobility would wear it, and sprang away into the crowd laughing. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The cane dangling from his wrist, large muff, long queue, black stock, feathered chapeau, and shoes, give him the air of "An old and finish'd fop, All cork at heel, and feather all at top." The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency The terrified face of the struggling and screaming fop, and the good-natured, businesslike expression of the fumbling and munching beast, offered the funniest sort of contrast. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Mr. Redmond tried to make fun of him before the girls, but Stumpy was too much for him, and retorted so smartly that he turned the laugh upon the fop. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock Pete was a wilderness fop and a dandy, and evidently was as careful of his clothes as a West Point cadet. The Black Wolf Pack It is the mark, as a rule, of fops and fools, and an indication of weakness of character. Life and Conduct Of course, I don't want him to look like a young fop; but you understand what I want. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) The moment that the two fops caught sight of Captain Lee, they whispered to Thomson— “That’s our man.” The Iron Horse "I was suffering with thirst, you see," continued the fop. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock Though royalty was written on his brow, He had then the grace, too, rare in every clime, Of being, without alloy of fop or beau, A finish'd gentleman from top to toe. Don Juan The Alexandrian gentleman—who sounds a decided fop—did not approve of a Doric pronunciation. The Princess of the School What a fop that Mr Carleton is—I don’t know what scented powder he uses, but it perfumed the whole room. The Privateersman Our tall superlative fop with the sleepy eyes and long whiskers was also there with his friend of the checked trousers. The Iron Horse "I am very glad to see you again, ladies," said the fop, running toward them as they approached. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock The fops used to laugh at him, and call him a bore. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 "It seems to me, however, that my services—" stammered the fop. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Those of them who had married called them old fops, made fun of them, and—feared them. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories The two fops had a friend with them who was not a fop, but a plain, practical-looking man, with a forbidding countenance, and a large, tall, powerful frame. The Iron Horse Some of these spectators seemed most egregious fops. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 The wit has become for him the mere fop, whose poetry is an arbitrary convention, a mere plaything for the fine ladies and gentlemen detached from the living interests of mankind. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century His design was to lash the follies and vices of the day, and his dramatis persona consisted for the most part of gulls, impostors, fops, cowards, swaggering braggarts, and "Pauls men." Brief History of English and American Literature A fop he might be; he had a wiry mind. Little Novels of Italy Their names were the reverse of romantic, for the fop with the checked trousers was addressed as Smith, he with the long whiskers as Jenkins, and the large man as Thomson. The Iron Horse Osric, a court fop, contemptible for his affectation and finical dandyism. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 The scourge of pride, though sanctify'd or great, Of fops in learning, and of knaves in state: Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay, His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. Highways and Byways in Sussex "Better swords and daggers, and hearts that are true, than silks and satins, Lowland fops and perfidy." The Tory Maid There was nothing conceited about Donaldson, nothing of the fop, but he enjoyed both the feeling and the appearance of rich garments. The Seventh Noon I know by the way in which that was said that there will be something more heard some day hence of our fop in checks. The Iron Horse Colonel Freeman personates a French fop, and obtains his consent to marry his ward, the heiress.—Mrs. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 But this was a bit of a fop, Adonis, dragoon,—so Venus remained in tête-à-tête with him. Stories of Comedy "Theatres will do for girls and fops," said the lady; "my mind requires something solid and weighty to satisfy it." Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems He was the fop of the school, wore the nattiest of garments, patent-leather shoes, gold watch, bosom pin, seal ring, and was blessed with a nice little moustache. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England Though not a fop, his hand trembled on the last morning of his journey when he fastened a necktie of the colour his mother loved best. The Mermaid A Love Tale Those worthless fops who spend their lives in "killing time" by lounging about bar-rooms, loafing on street corners, or strutting up and down the boulevard, are anything but chaste. Plain Facts for Old and Young So the fools and fops of La Bruyère's time thought or pretended to think that he was seriously claiming to be of noble birth. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France But only a literary fop can be detained by specks like these. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Though he always dressed well, he was no mere fop—Lord Byron is credited with the remark that there was nothing remarkable about his dress save "a certain exquisite propriety." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" How little of a fop and how much of a poet he is, we see from his disordered collar. Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation As the perfumed fop, in an interval of reflection, gazes at the spectacle through his dainty eyeglass, the prospect swims in blood and glares with the ghastly phosphorus of corruption, and he shudders with sickness. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life We have had attempts at foppery in America, but no real fops. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View No. He is, in the overwhelming main, the neighborhood fop and beau, the human clothes-horse, the nimble squire of dames. Damn! A Book of Calumny I began to think we looked as much like fops as the rest of the scented and bearded dress-coats, who strut about, and imagine the world is looking at them. Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside He was not like those young fops who could devote the whole day to her and pass their life at her feet, like enamored pages. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) That wheel of fops! that saunter of the town! The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 A genuine fop, whether in art, in literature, or in costumes, must have brains, ours have been merely effigies, foppery taking the dull commercial form of a great variety of raiment. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Must I drag my honest and hitherto respected name through the mire, and become the laughing-stock of every fop throughout the country? Dr. Dumany's Wife There had been only two fops, and I was so enthralled already. Daisy It is the popular doll figure commonly known in Germany as the "Wiener Gigerl" or "Vienna fop." A Cigarette-Maker's Romance They were treated, without a doubt, as fops and prodigals, who bought an instrument of vanity at a high price, in order to spoil the Creator's handiwork. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary She was not blind to the fact that he was a fop and not blessed with too much brain. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' A fop will gauge a man's worth by the size of his purse or the style and cut of the coat he wears. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals When fops and fools together prate, O'er punch or tea, of this or that, What silly poor unmeaning chat Does all their talk engross! The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Here we have a good caricature of the fops of the day. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour He was what might be called a literary fop, and was much given to the production of highly-wrought, Byronic poems and sketches. The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua To do him justice, fop as he was, he did not want for courage, and, moreover, he was a good swordsman. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Some lie out of vanity, as poets, painters, players, fops, military officers, and all those who frequent the levees of the great: and others lie out of ill nature, as old maids, &c. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Rochester called him 'The best good man with the worst-natured muse;' and Pope says he was 'The scourge of pride, though sanctified or great, Of fops in learning and of knaves in state.' The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 There's that fop now, has not by nature wherewithal to move a cook-maid, and by that time these fellows have done with him, egad he shall melt down a countess! History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour The thing that happens to a fop is quite different in effect from that which affects a sweet old lady. Writing the Photoplay Here stood one who from his clothes seemed to be a poor artisan; there lounged a fop in evening dress. Dead Man's Rock It is to gratify the vanity, and pride, and luxury of the women, and of the young fops who admire them, that we owe this insupportable grievance, of bringing in the instruments of our ruin. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish The last days of fops and beaux are never glorious. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 He is a fidgetting, busy, dogmatical, hot-headed fop, that speaks always in sentences and proverbs, and he rails perpetually against the present Government. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour For me, I am 'sick of fops, and poesy, and prate,' and shall leave the 'whole Castilian state' to Bufo, or any body else. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals Ah, it is a pretty game; you, you sullen brute; you, you fop and dandy; but when you are sitting silent round the board, behold a dagger flashes down and quivers into the wood! Sunrise It was the typical costume of a courtier of the Plantagenets—fops in dress and devils in battle. Beatrix of Clare Nash, though a fop and a fool, was not a bad-hearted man, as we shall see. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 I have seen this abominable ill-breeding kept up by a set of accomplished young fops for two hours together, in exceeding cold weather. A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume 2 He would as soon be seen as not, and, vain fop that he was, he rather enjoyed the stirring of heads he felt would ensue when he moved up the aisle. Bad Hugh The "Seventh" dances and flirts to-night— All we are fit for, so they say, We fops and weaklings, who masquerade As soldiers, sometimes, in black and gray. Point Lace and Diamonds I have always held him to be a conceited fop, but never either crack-brained or devoid of principle. From the Ranks Give me an honest home-spun country clown Of our own growth; his dulness is but plain, But theirs embroidered; they are sent out fools, But come back fops. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 From Father Hopkins, whose vein did inspire him, Bayes sends this raree-show to public view; Prentices, fops, and their footmen admire him, Thanks patron, painter, and Monsieur Grabu. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 Catholics, while they esteem a mere fop at his just value, expect their priest to rise above the sneers of the most censorious and, if possible, to challenge the respect of all. The Young Priest's Keepsake You knew the man who opposed me; you know that a more shallow and insignificant fop and fool never yet dared to thrust his head into a deliberative assembly. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia A born fop would have looked as little at home in a toga and sandals, as did this swarthy musician, doctor, priest, or whatever he was, in his fashion-plate costume. Idolatry A Romance Think on't, however, sir; debauchery is upon its last legs in England: Witty men began the fashion, and now the fops are got into it, 'tis time to leave it. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 What can we do, when mimicking a fop, Like beating nut-trees, makes a larger crop? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 I do not mean fops and dandies, but true gentlemen. The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories I have not seen a single dude, not one of those wretched fops of whom I have seen only too many in South Africa. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front "I didn't know I was such a fop," he said, laughing, as Miss Dwight rallied him on his preparations for receiving the ladies. Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular English! away, you fop: 'tis a kind of lingua Franca, as I have heard the merchants call it; a certain compound language, made up of all tongues, that passes through the Levant. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 What if they censure without brain or sense, 'Tis now the fashion; Each giddy fop endeavours to commence A reformation. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 "The lips that laughed an age agone, The fops, the dukes, the beauties all, Le Brun that sang and Carr that shone." Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Bravery and seamanship he rated at their true value, whether in peer or peasant; but he never could abide the fops and fine gentlemen who thought they became officers merely by donning epaulets. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Monsieur le Chevalier, lately a fop at court will become a habitant of the forests, will wear furs, and seek his food by the aid of a musket. The Grey Cloak I have taken some care of her education, and placed her here with Mrs Saintly, as her daughter, to avoid her being blown upon by fops, and younger brothers. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Sign but his peace, he vows he'll ne'er again The sacred names of fops and beaus profane. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 The fop was stupid and intended to utter a bit of nonsense … but he had spoken the truth! A Reckless Character And Other Stories I had always tried to explain him to other people, to justify him; and he had turned to me fop help and companionship in a singular way. The Child of the Dawn There had been a sea-change; he was no longer a fop; there was grey in his hair; he was a man. The Grey Cloak The dandies in the younger set flourish canes and assume all the languishing airs that distinguish the callow fops of the white race. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 There appeared an elderly man, in a black frockcoat, loose-fitting and not too garishly new, a student's coat rather than a fop's. Bunker Bean "What tragic eyes!" remarked a certain grey-haired fop, who sat behind Arátoff, with the face of a courtesan from Revel,—one of Moscow's well-known first-nighters and rounders. A Reckless Character And Other Stories She loathed the sight of the effeminate young fops who tried to win her smiles by presenting themselves for a polite call each morning, polished and furbelowed, and rubbed sleek and smooth with Catanian pumice. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Wedded to a fop, whose only thought was of himself? The Grey Cloak Each Sunday night we gave a rout To fops and flirts, a pretty list; And when I tried to steal away, I found my study full of whist! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Split me," said one splendid fop, "but since my lady returned to town the price of ambergris and bergamot and civet powders has mounted perilously, and the mercers are all too busy to be civil. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality "The lass sings with conviction," remarked the same fop who sat behind Arátoff,—and again he spoke the truth. A Reckless Character And Other Stories By the title, we presume Mr Cope means to satirize some modern fops of the profession. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 He was the mirror of elegance, with none of the exaggerations of a fop. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. But for such ancient fops, as, with reverence, your father is, what reason can they have to be in love? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 "Why, then, did he bring home my turkey?" stammered the fop. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made The next day the Earl of Essex seemed to have no distress but his poverty; and my Lord Foppington wanted any better means to show himself a fop than by wearing stockings of different colours. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations The outstanding fact of my experience at least, Gazelle, has been the astonishing loyalty to his chaplains and his church of that awful phenomenon, the young High Church fop, the ecclesiastical youth. Tell England A Study in a Generation Nay, put on, put on again, sweet sir; why should you be uncovered before the fop your master, the wretched wight, the mortal of a grovelling soul? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 A Romeo, a Lovelace, a Lothario, a Juan? a disillusioned rake, a sentimentalist, an effete fop, a romantic lover? Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Between the fops and the ladies goodwill did not always prevail. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Sir Philip Brilliant is a gentleman of exquisite breeding—a man of fashion, with a taste for finery, and somewhat of a fop. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 When we meet next, pray provide to laugh heartily; for there is subject sufficient for a plentiful fit, and fop enough to spare for another time. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 My cigar breeds many forms,— Planter of the rich Havana Mopping brow with sheer bandanna, Russian prince in fur arrayed, Paris fop on dress parade, London swell just after dinner, Wall Street broker—gambling sinner! Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry In Reason, Nature, Truth he dares to trust: Ye fops be silent, and ye wits be just! A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character There was a remarkable elegance and a delicacy in the features, but also a character of resolution and ability that quite took the portrait out of the category of mere fops or fine men. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh I'm cleverer, true, than those fops of teachers, Doctors and Magisters, Scribes and Preachers; Neither scruples nor doubts come now to smite me, Nor Hell nor Devil can longer affright me. Faust He has disposed of himself, I thank him, for an hour or two: The fop would make me believe, that an unknown lady is in love with him, and has made him an assignation. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 He began by being a fop and ultra-extravagant; and was always, if we may believe accounts, a libertine of the first water. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The fop of the Restoration was a different creature to the Elizabethan gallant. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Who that had wit would place it here, For ev'ry peeping fop to jeer? The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 He had passionately longed to be a fop—he was one. The Sorcery Club Th' unnatural strained buffoon is only taking; No fop can please you now of God's own making. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 The butterfly goes to martyrdom, the fop has to become fine. Reviews Nell Gwynne is in front of the curtain prattling with the fops, lounging across and leaning over them, and conducting herself saucily and impudently enough. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character In the Pall Mall when passing by, Keep up the glasses of your chair, Then each transported fop will cry, "G——d d——n me, Jack, she's wondrous fair!" The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 Politeness is not to be learned of the dancing-master, the fop, or the belle. Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness Three signs that show a fop: the comb-track on his hair; The track of his nice teeth upon his nibbled fare; His cane-track on the dust, oft as he takes the air. A Celtic Psaltery I lazed about in these gay Paris houses, bent on my pleasure, too shallow a fop even to take sides in the fight for a kingdom. Helmet of Navarre If I had not known that this cowardly fop--I don't know what else he may be--was injuring me by his lies I should not have come in. The End of the World A Love Story Every fop, every boor, every valet, is a man of wit.—Macaulay. An English Grammar Are there not some young ladies who would prefer the company of the showy, chattering fop; who would receive his address, yea, accept him as a husband, and reject the diffident, modest youth? Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. African and European Addresses A—— will never be anything but a good-looking member of the fashionable society of Nice—a gay liver, almost a fop. Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) They confirmed her judgment, they comforted her heart, they made her feel grateful, even affectionate toward the fop, in spite of his watch-seals, his curled mustache, his straps, his cold eyes, and his artificial smile. The End of the World A Love Story “So much,” he concludes, “for literature and its fops.” The Art of Letters Who will heed it," thought he; "what care these fops and brawlers for me? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The dandies, fops, exquisites, and beaux of picturesque and courtly ages were, of course, very partial to canes, and sometimes wore them attached to the wrist by a thong. Walking-Stick Papers Could Juliette have turned a willing ear to the amorous chatter of the young fop? A Love Episode On the other hand, we find complaints that young fops hindered business by lolling on the counter an hour longer than was necessary, and annoyed the young women who served them with ingenious ribaldry. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 The current of a female mind Stops thus, and turns with every wind: Thus whirling round together draws Fools, fops, and rakes, for chaff and straws. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Opinions were divided as to whether the House had squelched the Israelitish fop, or whether the fop had tantalized the House into unseemliness. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors More than one dandy of the gutter nursed the head of a club called significantly the "lawbreaker's canes of crime," with a distant air of the fop sucking his clouded amber knob or silver shepherd's-crook. The Son of Clemenceau They were honest folk, who did not speak ill of their neighbors, and who, unlike the fops of Rome, had not for sole topic of conversation the races or the theatre. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The one was laughed at as a fop; and I heard many whispers against the other, as a whimsical sort of fellow, and a great enemy to trade. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 Nine spirits of blaspheming fops, With aconite anoint his chops; And give him words of dreadful sounds, G—d d—n his blood! and b—d and w—ds!' The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 And there was a place by Moses, but he was very much of a fop just then, owing to a new "second-hand" coat, and might make scathing allusions to Patsy's abbreviated swallow-tail. The Story of Patsy For our corporation, the untimely, unmanageable passion of this athletic fop might have had grave consequences, and for you. The Son of Clemenceau Figure to yourselves a crowd of fops, chattering like a flock of daws, carrying their stools in their hands, and settling around, and sometimes upon the stage itself, with as much noise as possible. The Drama At eight-and-twenty, Caesar, who not thirty years later was to die master of Rome, was chiefly known as a fop and a spendthrift. Roman life in the days of Cicero She ask'd about her friends below; This meagre fop, that batter'd beau; Whether some late departed toasts Had got gallants among the ghosts? The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Possibly it was the young man's great height which took the eye of the soldier in the midst of this crowd, where smirking fops and bending courtiers predominated. Tom Tufton's Travels Monsieur Grisson was shorter, with lighter-colored hair, something of a fop in his attire, and certainly more genial in his manner. The Lost Ambassador The Search For The Missing Delora An old saw runs: “Eton fops, Harrow gentlemen, Winchester scholars, and Westminster blackguards.” Rides on Railways It is from this nursery of worthless, idle young fops that I, Irene de Chateaudun, will be forced to choose a husband. The Cross of Berny We hate your empty prattle; And vow and swear 'tis true, There's more in one child's rattle, Than twenty fops like you. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 I am sick to death of the inanities of the dandies and fops of the town. Tom Tufton's Travels See fop. populace, n. commonalty, proletariat, rabble. popular, a. approved. popularity, n. favor, esteem, approbation, celebrity. population, n. inhabitants. porch, n. piazza, stoop, veranda, porte-cochère, portico. pork, n. Putnam's Word Book If I thought he was going to turn to a fop, by the Lord Harry I'd disown him! The Firm of Girdlestone A fop fashioned by his tailor, and who passes his life looking at his figure reflected in four mirrors as shiny and cold as himself! The Cross of Berny He was a man who combined in a most surprising manner true philosophy and a deep knowledge of political economy, with the outward appearance of a fop and a trifler. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 "I find it vastly entertaining," answered Tom truthfully; "but I feel me something out of place amongst all the fine fops I meet everywhere." Tom Tufton's Travels As much a puppy as ever I saw; very ugly, and a fop. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings To me the fop's ridiculous little oval face, with that tuft of hair in the middle of it, looked like a little white rabbit hiding behind a bush. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig The courts now-a-days are so tricky that they might give you some trouble even for suppressing such an insipid fop as Léon de Varèzes. The Cross of Berny Did she class him among the fops, or was it but a caprice? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 However, is innocent, and unsuspectedly virtuous hitherto; but makes herself cheap and accessible to fops and rakes, and has not the worse opinion of a man for being such. Pamela, Volume II Timid, self-pleasing, sensitive, With Gods, with fools, content to live; Bended to fops who bent to him; Surface with surfaces did swim. Poems Household Edition Nothing displeases a true woman more than to waste an evening on a brainless fop. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses Then it was that the exquisite young fop at her side was utterly dumbfounded. Four Girls at Chautauqua The men of Maryland thought those of Connecticut ploughboys; the latter held the former to be fops and dandies. George Washington, Volume I But surely, Madam, there is a middle way to be observed, in these, as in most other cases; for a man need not be a sloven, any more than a fop. Pamela, Volume II He has recently been most distinguished as the father of that eminent fop, Lord Petersham, the envy of Bond street and the pride of the pave. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832 The battery was captured, but held only fop an instant, when two companies of Rhode Islanders, led on by Harold Hare, charged madly up the hill. Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession He was like one of the grotesque figures shaped in black paper, or as Sir Philip, looking in from the dining-parlour, observed, “like a light-heeled French fop.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago “Sar!—your—appellation—if—you please?” the drawling and affected response of the fop. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 "Not," replied she, "to invite such fops as you to my shop." Pamela, Volume II In wrestling I did much excel And lov’d to douse a boasting fop, Nor cared I how or where we fell Provided I fell on the top. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland For the most part, they were unintelligent, acquiescent fops, stupid bores who had tried the patience of their professors. Against the Grain It would not be a bad thing if there were more "old fops" like Oscar Byrn in the theaters of to-day. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections There was a young fop at the organ in rich and modish attire, but otherwise of unattractive and common appearance. Mistress Penwick Was the lady a woman of taste?" we condemn every man who dresses well, and is not a sloven, as a fop or a coxcomb?" Pamela, Volume II Dear Mr. Idler, tell him what must at last become of a fop, whom pride will not suffer to be a trader, and whom long habits in a shop forbid to be a gentleman. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler Claverhouse is a fop, and, under the finish of dress, and levity of behavior, hides the terror of his war. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice The thought of violets meant florists' shops, And bows and pins, and perfumed papers fine; And garish lights, and mincing little fops And cabarets and songs, and deadening wine. The Book of American Negro Poetry One said there was a strange Abbé in the monastery, whose hands were as bejewelled as any fop's, and that a number had gone in search of him. Mistress Penwick She saw plainly that he had chosen his side--the impertinent fop, with his airs and graces!--and she was not to be propitiated. The Castle Inn Just returned from an interview with this Hickman: a precise fop of a fellow, as starched as his ruffles. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 The episode is all very funny, of course, and there is an appreciative titter when the fop defines the characteristics of a gentleman: "Complaisance, fine hands, a mouth well furnished— "SERVANT. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield The stable's old swinging sign—a carefully painted fop with flowing side whiskers and yellow topcoat swiftly driving a spirited horse to a neat red-wheeled run-about—had been replaced by First-Class Garage. The Wrong Twin Down came the scullion, followed close by the gay young fop, who waited impatiently outside the door. Mistress Penwick He was a veritable carpet knight, and though not a fop, was exquisitely dressed in full evening costume, and showed his long pedigreed blood in every line of his clean-shaven face and tall slight figure. My Brilliant Career It may indeed, and I believe it does, resemble the generality of the fops and coxcombs about town. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 A most egregious fop, according to all accounts, he was, but a very pleasant one notwithstanding, as your fop of parts is apt to be. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield His design was to lash the follies and vices of the day, and his dramatis personæ consisted for the most part of gulls, impostors, fops, cowards, swaggering braggarts, and "Pauls men." From Chaucer to Tennyson They were fairly flying from the Palace, turning from the sight of a young fop as he came at full gallop through the throng that crowded near the Royal House. Mistress Penwick He pretends to be surprised at nothing, and to possess in perfection—poor, pitiable old fop—the art of keeping his countenance; but repeatedly, I know, I have made him stare. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Courtesy he holds to be the vice of fops, and the manners of society mere hypocrisy. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Colley might make a delightful fop, but the playing of dandies could hardly lead one up very gracefully to the handling of Cato. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield She is not a fop in binding, but she must have appropriate dresses for her favorites. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 And 'twas said many of the young fops also used the milk for their complexion. Mistress Penwick I do hate a Frenchified fop with all my soul: and I cannot say that I am much pleased with my neighbour Underwood for taking the part of such a rascal. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are For a young woman, this dream foretells a fop for a sweetheart. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition But through the blood and the dirt and the rags a new Baynes shone forth—a handsomer Baynes than the dandy and the fop of yore. Son of Tarzan A fop is not a favorite with his own sex. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow She donned a red-hued periwig and cockle hat, then strutted back and forth, proud of her fine appearance, as, indeed, she looked a roguish fop of no mean parts. Mistress Penwick First issued from perfumers’ shops A crowd of fashionable fops; They liked her how she liked the play? The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces The mask of an inane fop had been a good one, and the part consummately well played. The Scarlet Pimpernel It is odd that Pepys condemned him for a fop; odd, though natural enough when you see Pen's portrait, that Pepys was jealous of him with his wife. Familiar Studies of Men and Books Neither and both: teach the workers to work and the thinkers to think; make carpenters of carpenters, and philosophers of philosophers, and fops of fools. The Souls of Black Folk Years and years of it all; and for that cold, selfish fop! Frances Waldeaux Poet, professor and circus clown, Chimney-sweeper and fop o' the town, Into the pot and be melted down: Into the pot of War! Rhymes of a Red Cross Man Loved that inane fop! whose thoughts seemed unable to soar beyond the tying of a cravat or the new cut of a coat. The Scarlet Pimpernel He was a kindly hearted fop, and more than once had killed his man with perfectly sincere regret. The Certain Hour It was managed by my old friend Espado; he was the bright-clad fop, whose hook nose got him called the Vulture. The Innocence of Father Brown And to lose her by the interference and the dictation of others, by an impudent old woman and a pretentious fop stepping in with their "authority"! The American The fop ran behind a tree, to be safe from the fracas. An Enemy to the King He is the very antipode of a fop, yet no man knows how to show a handsome leg off to better advantage, or is prouder of his calves. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 There is even the danger that the boy will become a fop or a dandy, and that the girl will take to overdressing. Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Though I was little more than a boy, my blood fairly boiled when I was requested to give up my seat at table for these arrogant young fops. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Here I had to pass through a host of these powdered, scented fops; and the multitude who had assembled to gaze on the nobler exhibition rather scoffed at our humble vehicle. Vivian Grey The latter had a wavy, yellow beard, a feminine manner, and a dandified air, as if he might once have been a fop at the court before descending to the rags which now covered him. An Enemy to the King |
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