10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLUNKEYISH»
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1
The Young Voyagers: Or the Boy Hunters in the North
... German one — of some obscure friend of the author, or, as is not unfrequently
the case, some lordly patron, for whom your closet-naturalist entertains a
flunkeyish regard, and avails himself of this means of making it known to his
Maecenas.
2
Gossip of the century: personal and traditional ...
... his face handsome, and his demeanour that of a gentleman, till by a too
flunkeyish imitation of the "dandies," to whose school he attached himself, he
unconsciously made himself an exaggerated copy of their type. Notwithstanding
this, for a ...
Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne, 1892
The Baron's only regret is, that this rough-and-ready " true grit " man should ever
have been presented at Court, and should have so far been influenced by
snobbism as to belittle his dear niece Kitty's hand by a flunkeyish comparison.
One of ...
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1896
4
Singleton Fontenoy, R. N.
“A very improper question,” said Snob Toadyley, with a flunkeyish and serious
look. “I would report it if I was you,” said Snigg, with a sneer. “It would serve you
right,” said Toadyley, turning red with shame and rage. “ And I would serve you
right ...
5
HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA AND POLAND FROM THE EARLIEST ...
To this flunkeyish petition the Minister of Justice, LubensE — one of the "
constitutional " ministers who managed to promote the interests of despotism
under the cloak of liberalism — retorted with coarse sophistry, 300 THE JEWS IN
RUSSIA ...
6
Pillory and witness-box
And the apology which in flunkeyish obsequiousness you hastened to lay
smoking hot before the feet of the Canuck-Britishers, must have rankled in their
nostrils. The old Tory and his club to whom and to which you proudly refer in so
off-hand ...
7
Through Norway with a Knapsack
A people originally simple- minded, dignified, honest, and truly obliging, become
servile, greedy, and extortionate, through the folly of some of our countrymen,
who are mean enough to fling their money about in exchange for a flunkeyish ...
William Mattieu Williams, 1859
8
A woman's reform bill for the unruly member [by E.G.].
There is something which sounds so "finiky," alias finical and flunkeyish, in the
word. It has sadly fallen from its first estate. Its " case " is a bad one, for instead of
answering to true Christian gentleness ; it is now the representative of humbug, ...
9
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
... their most gracious sovereign and patron in naming their first establishment in
this new land, but posterity will ever regret their bad taste in substituting the
flunkeyish appellation of "Jeems's River" for the euphonious and majestic "
Powhatan.
LlB their curtesye,” and were full of the flunkeyish respect of persons that
characterises courtiers, it must have been a joke to see a proud porter rapped on
the crown by the country clown, a nobleman offered fourpence for an introduction
to the ...
Thomas Percy, John Wesley Hales, Frederick James Furnivall, 1868
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLUNKEYISH»
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The Pevearsion of Russian Literature
“Sundry flunkeyish effects” is just howGogol sounds. Alas, P&V's Petrushka settles into “a very dark closet, where he had already managed to ... «Commentary, Jun 10»
