| 单词 | fustian |
| 例句 | Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony, and by Milo’s crushing bereavement. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Mantel uses her own words – there is no fustian in the prose – yet all the observations are her character's. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z Yet, although Mantel adopts none of the archaic fustian of so many historical novels — the capital letters, the antique turns of phrase — her book feels firmly fixed in the 16th century. Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ by Hilary Mantel 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Even with an Oscar nomination for Zero Dark Thirty, she has been unable to sustain sales for the fustian costume drama The Heiress – and the Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens hasn't made up the difference. Scarlett Johansson back on Broadway for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof revival 2013-01-18T15:44:05Z "A major effect of junk politics — its ceaseless flood of patriotic, religious, macho and therapeutic fustian — is to pull position after position loose from reasoned foundations," DeMott noted. America's theater of the absurd: Our politics has become an endless carnival 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The farthingale sleeve is made from a thick cotton material called fustian, stitched with 14 casings of linen each containing a hoop of baleen, also known as whalebone. 'Extremely rare' 500-year-old textiles stun Antiques Roadshow expert 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Welles’ “Macbeth,” while historically important for its bold auteur stamp, is similarly held back by theatrical fustian and bombast. What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z "It rather depends whether you're clad in the fustian of Victorian habit or you embrace the common ground with our European cousins," he says. Which should come first - cheese or pudding? 2014-03-11T13:13:37Z He yanked his hat lower: was he remembering his fustian scenes, hard-drinking, quarrelling? Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z HighÐsounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z And what stuff, what fustian she had mistaken for heroism; while, through all, the quiet restraint of the true master of men had been under her eyes. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z What deity cares for such foaming at the mouth, such fustian? Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He wages holy war against fustian literature, sham statesmanship, sectarian cant, legalized injustice, and titled tyranny. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The extensive use of badges by the retainers of princes is shown by the order of Richard III for the making of thirteen thousand boars “wrought upon fustian,” to be used at his coronation. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z It mattered not that some wore the high-collared coats of the day, and two waistcoats under them, and had watches in their fobs; and that others tramped in smock frocks drawn over their fustian shorts. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z "But, Uncle Eden—" "Or to wear a fustian coat?" Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z There is no rant or fustian in his speeches, for they are eminently intellectual. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z There is no padding or fustian in the book, and no word is squandered, Mrs. Moodie regarding the mission of language to be to convey thought, not to put on a useless parade.’ Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Lord Level says it was not white flannel, but light fustian, such as a countryman might wear. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:21.457Z Right up to the top-most benches the folk were banked—broadcloth in front, corduroys and fustian behind; faces turned everywhere upon him. The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring 2011-12-31T03:00:19.660Z Even Rolla's fustian address to the Peruvians, which sounds like Sheridan's speeches against Napoleon, always stimulated the galleries to a higher pitch of hatred to tyranny. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Without a rag of black fustian, a newly furnished palace like this is too gaudy. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The cloth made of flax and cotton was called fustian; for which article Manchester was famous, as well as for laces. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z They were attired in dirty fustians, with gaudy cotton handkerchiefs round their necks, and caps which made their foreheads appear "villanously low." The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z I am the better able to judge, because I see her in n�glig� costume—a morning jacket, and a short fustian skirt, as well as I can see from here. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z O fustian fairy, blown out like a bladder! The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z One might call Mutanabbí the Victor Hugo of the East, for he has the grand style whether he soars to sublimity or sinks to fustian. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z One appears in a fustian jacket green as grass. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z It was not long before Ulenspiegel returned, well washed and clothed in fustian. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z She was still dressed in the white jacket and short fustian skirt; that costume was very becoming to her, it showed off all her good points. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z Has that pimpled fellow of fustian, that swiller of the leavings of a tap room, the worshipful king of the Burgesses, master Jack Coode, got drunk again and begun to bully in his cups? Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Whether offered in a cathedral or a barn, whether the worshipper wear a cope or a fustian jacket, such service is not accepted. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z This looked like business, and lent a weight which might otherwise have been lacking to the somewhat fustian eloquence of Onontio. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? swagger? swear and discourse fustian with one’s own shadow?—O, thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee—devil! The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z Yet the old king received Mr. Adams courteously; and under the pretty fustian of conventional speech the one covered his regrets and the other covered his exultation. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z The nails of his heavy shoes sunk into the carpet at every step, and his fustian garments contrasted coarsely with the rich cushions and sumptuous draperies of the room. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z Here, along side the road, are some half-dozen headless tailors’ dummies, dressed in Chesterfields and fustian jackets, each labelled:—“Look at the prices,” or “Observe the quality.” A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The term was once applied to a coarse cloth made of cotton and flax; now, fustians are usually of cotton and dyed various colours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z The hob-nailed boots stockings, shirt, fustian trousers, and waistcoat—I had no coat—were all sold to an Irishwoman for four shillings and sixpence: I spent the money among my comrades. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z It was applied also to the cotton wadding with which garments were lined and stuffed in Elizabeth’s time; hence inflated speech, fustian. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z That would have been a fit setting for a farm-hand, or a carrier, or some other wearer of fustian. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z All fools did not wear fustian, some of them wore fur-lined coats and drove motor-cars; the things that mattered were heart and intellect. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Philip and Mary, “fustian of Naples” is mentioned. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Haydon’s acknowledgment is of course enthusiastic, but betrays his unfortunate gift for fustian in the following precious expansion of Keats’s image of the sick eagle:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Two people were coming down Coleridge's garden,—a "gaunt and Don-Quixote-like" man in striped pantaloons and a brown fustian jacket, and a slender, pleasing, dark-haired woman in her early twenties. A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2011-06-08T02:00:18.910Z Arkwright argued that the statute should not include printed or painted cloth made in Great Britain in its ancient tradition of fustians with an all linen warp for strength and a cotton weft for fineness. Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition 2011-06-03T02:00:23.737Z Many passages are mere fustian, some are outrages against all taste; but others have a sublimity not often surpassed. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z In the 13th and 14th centuries priests’ robes and women’s dresses were made of fustian, but though dresses are still made from some kinds the chief use is for labourers’ clothes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Perfectly sincere and genuinely moved, he can never for a minute continuously steer clear of rant and fustian and self-praise at another’s expense. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Weekday and Sunday it is the same contrast; one wears fustian, the other broadcloth; one prepares for heaven in the velvet cushioned pew, the other on the wooden benches of the free seats. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Woe to him if he fell into fustian, or pretended to a wisdom he could not substantiate. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z But they were never able to blind me with their fustian ideals. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z "Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? swear? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?" The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The swaggering Pistol in King Henry IV., is chiefly characterized by his inflated language, and is, as Doll calls him, merely “a fustian rascal.” History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The bad taste of Balzac was of a different description; he composed familiar letters in a fustian style. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The only difference is that one is fustian and the other flimsy; I am not unwilling to read Church history at present and have Milner’s in my eye; his is reckoned a very good one. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The person I addressed was a tall young man, with a fustian frock-coat. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z “In such language, at such a time, there is no ‘bombastic fustian.’ Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z Then he was fond of buying horses, and dogs, and carriages, and used to hold a levee at Spider Court of disreputable-looking men in fustian corduroys, much to Leonard Dagle’s disgust. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z We think of papa in his old fustian shooting-jacket, paying the laborers, and higgling about half a day to be stopped here, and a sack of meal to be deducted there. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Quite a bit of Beaconsfieldian fustian,' said Sidney, laughing yet astonished. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z My two companions chattered in their strange Spanish, he of the fustian occasionally turning his countenance full upon me, the last grin appearing even more hideous than the preceding ones. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z A board nailed across the front served for the driver, a quiet, demure-looking boy of fifteen or sixteen, with a round straw hat and a fustian jacket. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Somehow, a man here may wear fustian and glaring colors, and paper collars, and yet keep his gentleness and delicacy, but a woman in glaring ‘Dolly-Vardens,’ and artificial flowers, changes natures with him at once.” The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z There they stood in long files exhaling the odour of fustian and warming their benumbed fingers on their coffee-mugs. The Undying Past In the end of the next year his marriage bans were published, and he was registered as a worker in fustian, a coarse cloth of cotton and flax. William Bradford of Plymouth Real cotton goods were not made in Lancashire till 1641, when Bolton is named as the chief seat of the manufacture of fustians, vermilions and dimities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" It is an open question if the making of cut pile carpets in Persia or by Saracens elsewhere preceded that of fustians and velvets or whether the developments in making the three proceeded pari passu. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" In their new fustian and their white jackets.... English Costume The dress consists of fustian, over which a blue smock frock with white stripes is thrown. About London On one occasion I paid a visit to the house of a settler, who was clothed in white linen jacket, straw hat, fustian trowsers, and coarse shirt, and was busy at work in his garden. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa The goods were probably an English imitation in wool of continental cotton fustians—which would explain the name. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" CORDUROY, a cotton cloth of the fustian kind, made like a ribbed velvet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Here, then, is a list of the clothes he pictured them as wearing: The Knight wears a fustian doublet, all rust-stained by his coat of mail. English Costume Do you not perceive that fustian and velveteen, which were natural amongst gamekeepers, are not so natural on gilded chairs covered with silk, with lace and diamonds at a distance of three feet? The Intellectual Life The fustian jackets of the men were generally whole and well cared for; but the children more than all struck him. St. Patrick's Eve Jean, said to be derived from Genoa where a kind of fustian with this title was made, is a kind of twilled cloth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" This way of thinking made the gentleman of whom I was just now speaking say, he was glad any one had taken upon him to depreciate such unnatural fustian as the tragedy of "Alexander." The Tatler, Volume 3 A poem, dedicated to a dead schoolmate, even won a prize, although considerable fustian had to be eliminated. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians As long as the world was content to take this imperial fustian in a Pickwickian sense, the imperial impresario found the same enjoyment as when he staged Sardanapalus on the boards of the Berlin Theater. The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia 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 In many other parts of the country, he wears no slop at all, but a corduroy or fustian jacket, with capacious pockets, and buttons of giant size. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Joseph Warton, who indignantly rejects it from his edition of Pope, asserts that “we have not in our language a more striking example of true turgid expression, and genuine fustian and bombast.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors At the same time, amid the fustian of the letters there are forcible and true expressions, and the love-verses that he wrote upon Clarinda are among the most moving in the language. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) He pored over them, driving his cart or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime from affectation or fustian. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series He wears, you see, a fustian gipon, which is stained with the rust of his armour. Old and New London Volume I Prisoner: I came from Hertfordshire 12 months ago, p. 73and I met with a man in a fustian jacket, who asked me to go with him to Buckingham House. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign His motions and his hints, as he describes them, in regard to cold or fustian writers, seem to include the extreme points of his own genius. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors It may seem such a waste of good opportunity to leave the philosopher in half-calf for the society of the workman in fustian. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching The Revenge, in which Zanga acts the part of an Iago, has some forcible scenes, and so, despite much rant and fustian, has Busiris. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) On the left were priests in fustian, holding enormous flagons of Rhenish wine and dancing in a drunken measure with their arms round more drunken doxies dressed like German women. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Prisoner: I wished to see the Palace, and I went in with a man in a fustian jacket. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign Others, who have a great deal of fire, but have not excellent organs, feel the fore-mentioned motions, without the extraordinary hints; and these we call fustian writers.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Sentences illuminated with words of power, suddenly rising and sinking, through a flare of fustian! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The British Lion roars loudly in it, but there is more of fustian in the piece than of true patriotism. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) "He hath perus'd all the impressions Of Sonnets, since the fall of Lucifer, And made some scurvy quaint collections Of fustian phrases, and uplandish words." Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare A really acute critic could hardly have mistaken the difference between Scott's verse and the fustian or tinsel of the Della Cruscans, the frigid rhetoric of Darwin, or the drivel of Hayley. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series Calico, which was all blue, was exempted from the provisions of this Act, as were also muslins, fustians and neck-ties. The Story of the Cotton Plant “Your best clothes,” she had said, realizing distinctly that fustian and corduroy would not do. The Very Small Person Joseph Andrews, though he wears Lady Booby's cast-off livery, is, I think, to the full as polite as Tom Jones in his fustian suit, or Captain Booth in regimentals. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges He put his hand under his thick fustian jacket and pulled out something tied up tightly in a red cotton pocket-handkerchief. Poppy's Presents Lewis was a coxcomb, a fribble, and the least bit in the world of a snob: his Monk is not very clean fustian, and most of his other work rubbish. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series The variety of these articles is countless: cloth, as fine as a spider's web, and coarse fustian, here finest batiste, and there, strong drill for overalls. Bremen Cotton Exchange 1872/1922 Now if it had been the threadbare, roomy, easy little fustians, with their precious pocket-loads, that she had demanded! The Very Small Person The one was a stout young cavalier, arrayed in fustian brown; the other was a pretty youth, attired in broadcloth blue, and brilliant was his flashing eye, and coal-black was his hair. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. The idea was an adaptation of the French fustian infusion bag of 1711, and of other early French drip and filtration devices, and it attained great popularity. All About Coffee You still find Byron in every German household where English is read at all, and no one seems to have found out what fustian most of his poetry really was. Home Life in Germany Pastoral duties and domesticity probably cured Young of some bad habits; but, unhappily, they did not cure him either of flattery or of fustian. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete In fustian and velvet cutting, where the same piece-wages are paid to men and women, the actual takings of the men are about double. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production Bestir thyself, knave," quoth the cove in fustian brown, as he entered the inn followed by the pretty youth in broadcloth blue—"beshrew me, I am devilish hungry, and athirst likewise. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. How can we help feeling a sense of shame, when we read Moore's contemptuous couplet, "The fustian flag that proudly waves, In splendid mockery, o'er a land of slaves?" An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature I found the grating closed; and kneeling before it, a foreign northern-looking man, with grizzled, curly hair and beard, and a torn fustian coat and immense nailed shoes. The Spirit of Rome No glow of brand or charcoal follows, and the lips, untouched by it, utter nothing but rhetoric and fustian and, as the Sydneian sentence speaks it, "trash." A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century He was an extremely little man, dressed in the Sunday garb of a civilian—fustian breeches, moleskin waistcoat, and a frock of blue broadcloth, very shiny at the seams. Merry-Garden and Other Stories A vigorous line or phrase occasionally redeems the chaos of rant, fustian, indecency, ill-nature, and muddled thought. A History of Elizabethan Literature A yeoman in brown fustian ran bending his head before the tempestuous rain. The Fifth Queen Crowned It is not openly reported of such that they would rather wear a black coat and starve than wear fustian and do well, to quote Thomas Hardy, but the stress of things drives them. Ringfield A Novel The actual story, though no great thing, is, if you could strip it of its froth and fustian, not so very bad: as told it is deplorable. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century There were present some half dozen yokels, the vicar’s curate, a country blood or two, and a little withered runt of a man in fustian with a weazened face like a wrinkled pippin. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 No keepers in green fustians, no array of thoroughbred dogs, but instead four plain setters with a touch of shepherd in them. A Village of Vagabonds In what raptures have I seen an audience, at the furious fustian and turgid rants in Nat. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 A countryman is as warm in fustian as a king in velvet, and a truth is as comfortable in homely language as in fine speech. Pearls of Thought A few carriages were added at the platform, and these contained a number of pitmen, in their red-stained fustian, going down for the morning shift. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time The little rat in fustian broke out screaming that he would swear to me among ten thousand: as to the girl she must be the rebel’s accomplice, his mistress mayhap. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 The man's jacket of fustian, open at the neck, bared a handsome sunbrowned throat. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Burglars are not all escaped convicts, blear eyed and hideous; nor do they all go about in fustian. The Diamond Coterie The company were all aboard; some in satins and velvets, in glistening armour; some in modest fustian; and as many in nothing but a dirty waist-cloth. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea The rag of fustian had been pressed out, and the water was escaping. The Boy Tar I make no doubt that no sooner was my back turned than the little rat in fustian, his mind set on a possible reward, was plucking at the lad’s sleeve with suggestions and doubts. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Yes, there were swells here, ball-room coxcombs in fustian and felt. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis He used all manner of threats and unctuous fustian. The Goose Man The eldes might be, on my nearest guess, towards nineteen, a tall comely young man, in a white fustian frock, with a green velvet cape, and cut bob-wig. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) But time would fail me to tell you of the myriad golden spangles so thickly stitched into the hurrying web of those fustian hours. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Curse her infernal twaddle about the rights of humanity and such fustian. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 That was the theory we set out with—that we, by our reading, or our singing, or fiddling, or tootle-tooing on the cornet, could civilize our friend in fustian. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Return to his bedroom, throw off the clothes, beat the featherbed, see that the fustian and sheets are clean. Early English Meals and Manners The boys were in small smocks, of either white or green canvas, with fustian or corduroy jackets or trowsers below, never cloth. Old Times at Otterbourne On his legs were a pair of dark grey fustian trousers, which had seen so much service that, from the knee downwards, they were torn into shreds. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains He wrote and read, and smoked and wrote, rising early, and talking fustian. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Scoundrels in broadcloth are not uncommon; gentlemen in fustian are sometimes met with. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg But it is well to recognize the source of eloquence, which is to be distinguished from bombast and fustian. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The age of rant and fustian has passed away, and Edwin Forrest could never gain a second fortune from such a combination of these qualities as "Metamora." American Men of Mind It was dark in the shop, and the smell of fustian absorbed the air. Moor Fires But there also seems to be association with Naples; cf. fustian-anapes for Naples fustian. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Some of our own contemporaries we hate particularly; Cobbett, for instance, and other bad fellows in fustian and corduroys. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 It stands, with Sadler's Wells and the Surrey, as one of the oldest homes of fustian drama. Nights in London Famous wine this—beautiful tipple—better than all your red fustian. Rookwood Oh, the English made a lot of woolen goods, and they had a hunch that cotton cloth might cut into the trade for wool and fustians. Carl and the Cotton Gin We may compare also "fustian eloquence"— "And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) From Flanders, fine cloth of Ypre and Curtike, fine cloth of all colours, fustian, linen cloth; for which England returns wool and tin. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 His manner was so self-possessed, his tone so cutting, that the young man of fustian—whose name was Kenty—fingered his sword hilt, and foamed at the lips. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War The moonlight, streaming in as before, fell upon the closed eyes, and hands folded in the old, old fashion upon the fustian jacket: the low whisper of the pines crept downward like a sigh. "Seth" They shrink from the rough fustian, the labourer’s cotton smock, the leather suit of George Fox. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year A man may be a first-rate missionary who dresses in a fustian jacket and leather gaiters, or whose costume is not more elaborate than that of these poor people. A Voyage round the World A book for boys A close-packed crowd doth hem him round, a tight, malodorous 'block' Of fustian men and women gross, of dry and dusty lock; His 'By your leaves' they heed no whit, his struggles wild they mock. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 This cloth was dyed and pressed and was called fustian. Home Life in Colonial Days He began to make verses about her, of course—ghastly, fustian stuff, at the recollection of which the Solitary shuddered, and then laughed. Despair's Last Journey The sheets of Rennes cloth and also fine fustians; the counterpane, cloth of gold, furred with ermines. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries The man wore a suit of black fustian, a foxskin cap, blue stockings and heavy shoes. Which? or, Between Two Women "Just look at the puppy!" snarled out old Growling to his neighbour: "he's going to measure us out some yards of his own fustian, I'm sure—he looks so pleased." Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes It was named in the earliest colonial accounts, and was in truth the ancient fustian, worn throughout Europe in the Middle Ages for monks' robes and laborers' dress, not the stuff to-day called fustian. Home Life in Colonial Days As broadcloth can neither make nor mar a true gentleman, so fustian cannot hide one. Rivers of Ice The impostor they follow has nothing but fustian and rodomontade in his impudent lying book from beginning to end. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Chaucer's knight in the fourteenth century wore fustian. Textiles and Clothing Music, though confined to a few choice spirits beneath fustian and smock frocks in village as well as town, played a much more important part with our grandfathers than is commonly supposed. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King As early as 1643 the author of New England's First Fruits wrote: "They are making linens, fustians, dimities, and look immediately to woollens from their own sheep." Home Life in Colonial Days "Martin's Month's Mind," which is a crazy piece of fustian, belongs to December, 1589, while the fourth tract, "Pasquil's Apology," appeared so late as July, 1590. The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse Velvet robes and gilded coronets go for nothing with him, if not worn by muscular integrity; and fustian is cloth-of-gold, in his eyes, when it covers a stout heart in the right place. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 In the fifteenth century Naples was famous for the weaving of fustians. Textiles and Clothing A bolt was drawn, the door opened, and a short wiry man, dressed in fustian and velveteen, with a fur cap on his head and a short pipe in his mouth, stood before them. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys No; 'tis Love that goes before thee with his torch, and he will lead thee through the worlds of good and evil—all the rest is mere fustian. A Hungarian Nabob He frequently calls them "absurd," and applies to them such epithets as "jargon," "fustian," and the like. "Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students Robin, a young gardener, fond of the minor theatres, where he has picked up a taste for sentimental fustian, but all his rhapsodies bear upon his trade. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 I could have been happy in the coarsest fustian or corderoy garment which I knew was my own. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I This is not all fustian for the flattery of women; it is the deliberate conviction of our best and wisest minds. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. Many penalties and forfeitures are laid on the persons who so treacherously corrupt honest fustian. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 Now and then women passed, but they, also, were of the night, gaudily bedecked in tinsel and glittering finery that would have been fustian by day to the least discriminating eye. Trail's End They deal with the spurious and fustian from cradle to grave. White Ashes This sum the Lord gave me thus: last evening I received 1l. together with a pair of trousers and gaiters, and a remnant of fustian for the Orphans. A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Fourth Part He wore corduroy trousers fastened round the waist by a narrow strap, and a blue shirt, with an unbuttoned jacket of fustian. Chatterbox, 1905. There is something mysteriously awful in the act of the eleventh year of Henry VII., called 'A remedy to avoid deceitful slights used upon fustians.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 Jacob Bright was educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and was apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" We dealt liberally in jeers at any exhibition of bathos or fustian; in laughter and applause at any touch of eloquence or wit. Confessions of Boyhood No novelist could have smaller likeness to the brummagem emotion-squeezers of the Kipling type, with their playhouse fustian and their naïve ethical cocksureness. A Book of Prefaces Another commoner kind of stuff is fustian, made of cotton, but thick, with a short nap, and generally dyed a dark colour. Stories That Words Tell Us To the French the word emphase has come to mean, not emphasis, but fustian. Platform Monologues He had changed his clothes, and in his work-a-day fustian looked far better than he had in the black cloth suit which he had worn to church. Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead I pored over them driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse; carefully noting the true, tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists There I disrobed, and resumed my check shirt, and trowsers, and fustian coat. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 The word fustian has also come to be used figuratively to describe a showy manner of speaking or writing, or anything which tries to appear better than it is. Stories That Words Tell Us But in the case of the female the brown fustian gives place to a beautiful velvet, with a pale transversal band and little white eyes on the fore pair of wings. Social Life in the Insect World My school-fellows talked of it to the detriment of their lessons; it flavoured the tobacco of the fustian artisan as he smoked to work after breakfast; it walked on 'Change amongst the merchants. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The poverty of the play faded out; he became almost unaware of the pinchbeck and the fustian of Patullo's invention and its insufferable mixture with the fabric of which every thread was precious beyond imagination. Hilda A Story of Calcutta Am I not myself, whether clad in velvet or in fustian—in homespun fabric, or in cloth of gold? Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors It is quite unlike Italian fustian or French sentiment. Letters from Egypt Ponderous eloquence, fustian bombast, and mouldy pathos combine with the display of pomp, to excite world-wide admiration. The Schemes of the Kaiser Nothing is so damaging to appeals to prejudice, spread-eagleism, and fustian bombast as an impassive reception. Public Speaking I have often heard working-men, whose fustian jackets scarcely held together, speak upon geological, astronomical, and other subjects, with more knowledge than most “cultivated” bourgeois in Germany possess. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 It would have struck a keen observer that good broadcloth expected condemnation, while fustian and rags eagerly desired acquittal. I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross He was attired in loose fustian clothes with a red handkerchief wound round his throat, and a low slouching hat—one of those called wide-awake—partially concealed his features. Elster's Folly "I wants to ask you a question," returned the other, bringing his face closer to Adrien, who recoiled involuntarily--the very smell of the fustian clothes offending his delicate nostrils. Adrien Leroy He wore a brown holland suit in summer, in colder weather a fustian one of like colour, and at first glance you might mistake him for a Quaker. Poison Island Yet the English and Anglo-Irish go on patching, and have carried this art to a remarkable pitch, putting wool or bagging on fustian, or the reverse—it’s all the same to them. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 What fustian, as they call it, have I heard these gentlemen find out in Mr Cowley's Odes! The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 Candidate signifies a man dressed in fustian; it comes from candidus, which is partly Greek, partly Latin, and partly Hebrew. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three His long, massive features were embrowned by habitual exposure to the weather, and he wore the mud-stained fustian dress of a quarryman. Th' Barrel Organ Old men with grey hairs, young men with mustaches—some in cloth, others in fustian, indicating that men of different rank can meet here. Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met The men wear chiefly trousers of fustian or other heavy cotton goods, and jackets or coats of the same. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 We long for thoughts of intellectual kind, And not to go bewilder'd to our beds; With stuff and fustian taking up the mind, And pins and needles running in our heads! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood What was liked about it, particularly, was the absence of patriotic fustian, for the national drama of the time seems to have been loaded down with long flights of fancy on the subject of liberty. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution You give me up, for the sake of a whim, of some silly fustian about patriotism, some fool's rubbish of high-sounding words! 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. "Fidelio" exists by reason of that one tremendous scene: there is nothing else dramatic in it: however fine the music is, one cannot forget that the libretto is fustian and superfluous nonsense. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians It is not within our scope to quote from the veritable Ossian, or to expose the bombast and fustian, tumid diction and swelling sound of Macpherson, of which the poems contain so much. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction But no—to make the more combustion, He goes in gaiters and in fustian, Like Captain Ross, or Topping Sparks, And deuce a miss but some one marks! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations I have seen, on such an occasion, a greasy stream oozing from the pocket of his fustian coat, and supplied by the roll of butter which at morning market he had purchased for home use. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy However, the vast enfolding iniquity is yet to be displayed and duly shuddered at; for WALL, the biped hyena, wears—a fustian coat! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 The regal ermine and the murderer’s fustian alike obtain their enviable niche. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 Bigots that in public spout, Spread phosphorus of zeal on scraps of fustian, And go like walking "Lucifers" about Mere living bundles of combustion. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood The lithe young man in fustian, whom I had seen talking with Beauty on the morning of our first encounter with that youthful Amazon, was awaiting our re-entrance with the key in his hand. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh How their oily fustian filled The summer air with fragrance that his fine olfactories thrilled! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 The fustian coat, with a tongue in every button-hole, discourses on its own inwoven infamy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 She rushed round the corner of the house, and came full against a black woman rinsing some fustian clothes in a tub near the rain-spout. The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) The amiable fustian, the Falstaffian bombast of Lucan and Ovid's brilliant imagination, all stamp their indelible seal upon the vivid coloring of Livy, the somewhat affected severity of Sallust, and the elegant morality of Tacitus. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Your trousers too, which you have made of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch plaid, of jane, nankeen, and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 When we had sat for a quarter of an hour or so, a heavy-looking young man, in fustian clothes and last year's linen, came into the room, and was introduced as the communal schoolmaster. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland He and his fustian clothes smelt of earth, burnt gunpowder, goat's cheese, garlic, and bad tobacco. Whosoever Shall Offend The stage now works its spells by her methods—without rant, cant or fustian—and as the years go by this must be so more and more, for mankind's face is turned toward truth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women I pored over them, driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, carefully noting the true tender or sublime from affectation or fustian. Selections from Five English Poets Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch- plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold? Past and Present El Greco seems to have achieved his stupendous designs by labouring to make significant the fustian of theatrical piety. Since Cézanne She would be undisturbed here after her frugal meal, except by her companions perchance, and she had thrown back her rough cloak, showing fustian garments beneath, yet she was a strange peasant woman surely. The Light That Lures 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 They have dressed it in coarse fustian, in convict clothes. Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev They said to us, "You commend your cloth to us, while you yourselves wear little of it; your better sort of people wearing silken garments, while the meanest are clothed in fustians, &c." A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The man, who approached, was dressed like the trunk of a tree in winter when it is clothed in the rough fustian of moss. Romance of the Rabbit Even in fustian garments nobility hides with difficulty from keen and suspicious eyes. The Light That Lures For full military dress he will first put on a tunic reaching nearly to his knees, and, since he is serving in the northern cold, a pair of fustian breeches covering the upper leg. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul "Bravo, quite a bit of Beaconsfieldian fustian," said Sidney laughing, yet astonished. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The bric-à-brac and fustian of the Romantics has disappeared, to be replaced by a clear, detailed, profound presentment of the life of the past. Landmarks in French Literature "Thank you!" said Mr. Haim brightly, seizing gratefully on the fustian phrase, eager to hall-mark it as genuine and put it among his treasures. The Roll-Call It was hard work enthusing over "Hancock and Hooray" after "Tilden and Reform;" the latter cry had substance, the former was just fustian. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" Oddly enough, Henry was always attracted by fustian. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Man, in the shape of a modest chap In fustian trousers and greasy cap; A trifle stolid, and something gruff, Yet, though unpolished, of sturdy stuff. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890 Others who have a great deal of fire, but have not excellent organs, feel the fore-mentioned motions, without the extraordinary hints; and these we call fustian writers.' The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. If we have the arts of the Antonines,—we have the fustian also. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II Scarcely a man is to be found who would not behave with more civility to a knave in broadcloth than to a knave in fustian. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Cobbett despised andsoforths, for their lack of meaning; and I find none in this one, unless it be, "of tinsel and of fustian." The Grammar of English Grammars Only a Man, but away at his back, In a dozen ears, on the steely track, A hundred passengers place their trust In this fellow of fustian, grease, and dust. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890 His doublet of serge and his fustian hose were stained with liquor from the vats, and his eyes were heavy with sleep. Master Skylark His poetry was verbose fustian, and his prose a maze of far-fetched expressions and perplexed phrases. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook How different from their easy, natural appearance in their every-day fustian! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage We, man, the friezes and fustians, that rub on till we get frayed through with overwork, and then all’s abroad, and the nakedness of Babylon is discovered, and catch who catch can. The Saint's Tragedy His diction is often inflated into fustian, and he indulges in exaggeration till it sometimes, unconsciously no doubt, amounts to falsehood. Famous Reviews Nicholas assisted his master to put on an old fustian shooting jacket, and Squeers, arming himself with his cane, led the way across a yard, to a door in the rear of the house. Ten Boys from Dickens It seems as if a certain quantity of fustian must be blown off before you reach the good material. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 The great virtue of Mr. Ramakrishna's writing is the absence of pretence and fustian. Tales of Ind And Other Poems Now and then, his trick drags him down into sheer fustian and bombast; but not always. Literary and General Lectures and Essays But let a man be near enough to get the light upon the other side and see through you; and you are but sorry fustian!' Martin Chuzzlewit Among our dresses there were most kinds of shabby and greasy wear, and much fustian and corduroy that was neither sound nor fragrant. The Uncommercial Traveller He mounted, as he spoke, a white mule which had been grazing by the wayside, all gay with fustian of gold and silver bells, and rode onward with Sir Nigel's party. The White Company Dirt and fustian will vanish before cleanliness and livery. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people A waistcoat of broadcloth or of fustian is alike to an aching heart, and we laugh no merrier on velvet cushions than we did on wooden chairs. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow He had small twinkling eyes, and a pock-marked face; wore a fur cap, a dark corduroy jacket, greasy fustian trousers, and an apron. Oliver Twist On his head he wore one of the common eighteenpenny French skull-caps, with a gaudy tassel dangling therefrom, very happily in keeping with a common fustian coat. The Pickwick Papers "I can dig it for you, Master Marner," said the young man in fustian, who was now by Eppie's side, entering into the conversation without the trouble of formalities. Silas Marner The “Usage of Europe” in the opening pages is not so much a record as a personification of unwritten Law: the Great Eltchi tramps the stage with a majesty sometimes bordering on fustian. Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake At the same time, amid the fustian of the letters there are forcible and true expressions, and the love verses that he wrote upon Clarinda are among the most moving in the language. Familiar Studies of Men and Books Not less important were his improvements in power-looms for weaving fustians, which were extensively adopted. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Men with the blue jersey and peaked cap of the boatman, or the white ducks of the dockers, began to replace the corduroys and fustian of the laborers. Beyond the City For three years he earned his living as regularly as the obscure functionary in fustian who swept the office. Roderick Hudson When last she had seen him he was sitting in a corduroy jacket, fustian waistcoat and breeches, and tanned leather leggings, with a basin of hot furmity before him. The Mayor of Casterbridge This bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a kerchief, a petticoat, woollen stockings, shoes—a complete outfit for a girl of seven years. Les Misérables You bring a piece of fustian with no faults in it, and there will be no fault in the pay. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I They recite in a timid and indistinct tone the prescribed fustian. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 Well may the poet exclaim in bitter sarcasm, "The fustian flag that proudly waves In solemn mockery o'er a land of slaves." An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Grower said magisterially to one of these in a fustian jacket, who smoked a short pipe and wore straps round his knees. The Mayor of Casterbridge Three such fustian canting words as distributive, alternative, and two ifs, no man but himself would have come within the noise of. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 God only knows how many pieces of fustian are lying soakin' in the river! The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Mr. Harris looked like a venerable Hawthorn; a brown fustian coat, a scarlet waistcoat edged with narrow gold, a pair of woollen spatter-dashes, and a gold-laced hat, formed the dress he generally wore. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire These he dressed in a sort of beggar's velvet, or a happy mixture of the thick fustian and thin prosaic; exactly imitated in Perolla and Isidora, Caesar in Egypt, and the Heroic Daughter; 3. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 The gang who had seized me were rough-bearded fellows in fur caps and fustian jackets, with buff belts round their waists, from which hung short straight whinyards. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Schiller's verses, truth to tell, sound like rank fustian. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Loading him with two heavy pieces of fustian to carry six good miles! The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I And yet beneath all this fustian there is much that stirs the blood. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal This ridiculous fustian seemed to him "very beautiful." The Man Shakespeare There is nothing debasing in a smock-frock or a fustian jacket. The Golden Calf Even in the stage version there is quite too much of rant and fustian. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller All three walls are lined with shelves for the storing of the fustian. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I The furniture was the same as before, but a coarse fustian jacket was thrown on the back of a chair, and a clay-pipe and a paper of tobacco stood on the table. Lord Kilgobbin She could distinguish them by their corselets, their fustian skirts, their foot-gear. The Saint When I composed the fustian brain Of this redoubted Captain Vain. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes The devil a bit do I understand which way to go about it; however, the spirit of fustian possesses us all, I find. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 A large whitewashed room on the ground floor of DREISSIGER'S house at Peterswaldau, where the weavers deliver their finished webs and the fustian is stored. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I The yellowish tones of his worn fustian suit and a red Tam-o'-Shanter cap completed the general effect of brilliancy and, as it were, foreignness. The History of David Grieve The most fashionable prairie dress is the fustian frock of the city-bred merchant, furnished with a multitude of pockets capable of accommodating a variety of extra tackling. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Sensible Englishmen, like Endymion and Trenchard, looked upon the whole exhibition as fustian, and received the revelations with a smile of frigid courtesy. Endymion He had begun to write poetry in childhood, when his father had taught him the value of brevity or compression and "the difference between poetic enthusiasm and fustian." Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived I once got into one by mistake, and was almost sickened by the smell of tobacco, spirits, dirty fustian, and old leather, which assailed my olfactory organs. The Englishwoman in America He need only open his morning paper and in it pours—the oracle of the press, that manufactory of synthetic fustian, whose main object consists in accustoming humanity to attach importance to the wrong things. Alone Swear?—and discourse fustian with one's own shadow? Rob Roy — Volume 01 The ordinary material of the surcoat for the rich was cloth, either scarlet, blue, or reddish brown, or two or more of these colours mixed together; and for the poor, linsey-woolsey or fustian. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period How can men of sense, and especially ministers of the Gospel, sit down to pen such fustian? American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States Her most commendable skill is to make her husband's fustian bear her velvet. Character Writings of the 17th Century On the other hand, how he despised fustian and bombast. Adventures in Contentment It is true, my coat is fustian, and my whole accoutrement plebeian. Four Early Pamphlets Right up to the topmost benches the folk were banked—broadcloth in front, corduroys and fustian behind; faces turned everywhere upon him. The Green Flag The fustian which passed for poetry and equally well for history is well illustrated by the contempt of the hard-headed Lucian for those historians who were unable to distinguish history from poetry. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism His phrase, the apparel of his mind, is made of divers shreds, like a cushion, and when it goes plainest it hath a rash outside and fustian linings. Character Writings of the 17th Century He was dressed in well-mended fustian, and he had a cloth cap on his head. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine It could be either cloth, kersey, fustian, sackcloth, canvas, or "English stuff"; or leather could be used. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Though he was dressed in fustian, and wore a workman's apron, he spoke effectively, and his words went to the hearts of his hearers. Beneath the Banner The former of these two offences differs from the latter by the difference between "fustian" and "gush." English Men of Letters: Coleridge "I am much deceived if this be not abominable fustian." Anne Bradstreet and Her Time There is something touching in the whiteness of a well-worn shirt, and the careful patches of a poor man's old fustian coat. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine However, you might, if you like, drop your metrical fustian, and adapt any one of Demosthenes's Philippics with a few alterations. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Bigots that in public spout, Spread phosphorus of zeal on scraps of fustian, And go like walking "Lucifers" about— Mere living bundles of combustion. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe Men with possessions of the yearly value of 40s. excluding the above three classes - fustian, bustian, scarlet cloth in grain 6. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III Your part! why, without you, instead of this fine white linen, and warm fustian, to clothe my child, I should only have had those rags which were trampled in the mud. Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 I shall commence operations by stripping off yours superfluities, putting you into fustian, and leaving you closeted with Necessity. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Bags come out with artistic interstices, fustian gleams like satin. Without Prejudice His expression is involved in fustian; a fault for which he was remarkable in his original writings, as in the tragedy of Bussy d'Amboise, &c. The Iliad His clothes were of fustian and his boots hobnailed, yet in his progress he showed not the mud-accustomed bearing of hobnailed and fustianed peasantry. Stories by English Authors: England Toto smelt of mortar and his fustian clothes and hairy arms were generally splashed with it. The Heart of Rome His coat was of fustian and was stained with rust from his armor, for he had just come back from fighting, and was still clad in his war-worn clothes. English Literature for Boys and Girls And when those fustian shams have flown The wise their new allegiance own, Leaving dead form to fools! Guns of the Gods The poverty of the play faded out; he became almost unaware of the pinchbeck and the fustian of Patullo's invention, and its insufferable mixture with the fabric of which every thread was precious beyond imagination. The Path of a Star "There are knights in fustian as well as knights in armor." The Landloper And here he sat, this Jadwin, quiet, in evening dress, listening good-naturedly to this beautiful music, for which he did not care, to this rant and fustian, watching quietly all this posing and attitudinising. The Pit His fustian shirt, sanguineflowered, trembles its Spanish tassels at his secrets. Ulysses Nicholas wore his usual fustian clothes, but had a bit of black stuff sewn round his hat—a mark of mourning which he had never shown to his daughter Bessy's memory. North and South Puh, any fustian invocations, Captain, will serve as well as the best, so you rant them out well; or you may go to a Pothecaries shop, and take all the words from the Boxes. The Puritaine Widdow Why, have them up, and shew them Some fustian book, or the dark glass. The Alchemist A fourth miscalls all by the name of fustian, that his grounded capacity cannot aspire to. Cynthia's Revels Come, come, leave these fustian protestations; away, come, I cannot abide these grey-headed ceremonies. Every Man out of His Humour They threaded their way through rusty velvet actors and fustian carpenters, and entered the green-room. Peg Woffington There was further a great waste of yabber-yabber about the diggers not being represented in the Legislative Council, and a deal of fustian was spun against the squatters. The Eureka Stockade If I were found drowned or buried, dressed or undressed, in fustian or in broadcloth, folk would look at my hand and say, “That man’s a carpenter.” The Hand of Ethelberta In vain do the manger and the cross tell their story to pride and fustian. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Monsieur Orange, yon gallants observe us; prithee let's talk fustian a little, and gull them; make them believe we are great scholars. Every Man out of His Humour I trust he will work that vein further, and recognize that Elizabethan Renascence fustian is no more bearable after medieval poesy than Scribe after Ibsen. Man and Superman I protest at once against recording it here: it is the coarsest fustian ever spun by Toorak Spiders. The Eureka Stockade Young men will rather wear a black coat and starve than wear fustian and do well.’ The Hand of Ethelberta It was open, and in it lay the body of a young man, wearing the smockfrock of a rustic, and fustian breeches. Wessex Tales He saw walking slowly across it a man in a fustian coat and a battered white hat with a much-ruffled nap, having upon his arm a tall gipsy-woman wearing long brass earrings. Life's Little Ironies That a man of Stephens's ability should have dealt in fustian like this in the most dreadful moment of Confederate history is a psychological problem that is not easily solved. The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South They flounder about between fustian in expression and bathos in sentiment. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners This company exports baize, kerseys, serges, Norwich stuffs, and other woollen manufactures; stockings, hats, fustians, haberdashery wares, tin, and hardware; as also herrings, pilchards, salted flesh, and grain; linens, pipe- staves, hoops, &c. London in 1731 Thus only can we repair the evil done by the caprice of fortune, which causes the one to be born into silk and the other into fustian. The Trampling of the Lilies Many of these fustian heroes formed the mushroom secret societies that played their vile extravaganza right under the shadow of the real tragedy of war. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray They are a sort of stately fustian and lofty childishness. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry Think of that, you in fustian jackets who grumble after meat. White Lies Methinks our sagacious Thuanus does not give in to such fustian, which formerly was looked upon as sublime, but in this age is justly called nonsense. Letters on England If the poet went home feeling more like a fellow in blue coat and fustian trowsers, or a winged genius of the tomb, I leave my reader to judge. Sir Gibbie Had they been larger-boned men, you would have called them gaunt; as it was, they were little of stature, and their fustian clothes hung loosely upon their shrunk limbs. Mary Barton I read no "Night Thoughts"—no fustian about churchyards—no bugaboo tales—such as this. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Of course it is absolutely unhistorical; of course it is empty of character, and replete with fustian, and ineffably tedious; but perhaps it is not much worse than other luckier tragedies of the age. Adventures Among Books The style is too much inflated, too unnatural, too closely copied from the Hebrew writers, who abound so much with the Asiatic fustian. Letters on England Men in the States, with horned hands and fustian coats, are very often most unnecessarily insolent in asserting their independence. North America — Volume 1 He purchased a new fustian coat and a pair of pumps, in which to be hanged, and he hired five poor men at ten shillings the day, that his death might not go unmourned. A Book of Scoundrels But our expectations are fustian spangled with pinchbeck; we look for tragedy to be theatrical. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William This is not certain, for some modern men of letters deeply read in Greek have all the qualities of fustian and effusiveness which Longinus most despised. Essays in Little For God's sake, thrust him down stairs: I cannot endure such a fustian rascal. King Henry IV, Part 2 Is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the serving-men in their new fustian, their white stockings, and every officer his wedding-garment on? The Taming of the Shrew No one objected, so each boy filled the fustian bag he carried full of stones. Tom Brown's School Days His fustian dress, besmeared with coal-dust and begrimed with soot; his oily hands, his dirty face, his knowledge of machinery; all point him out as one devoted to the manufacturing interest. Miscellaneous Papers Professor Wilder; his services against fustian and ``tall talk.'' Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 The line is worth a hundred pages of fustian. Jane Eyre |
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