10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GILLFLIRT»
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The Knights. A comedy, in two acts and in prose
Gillflirt .' None of your Fleers LI a glad here's a' Husband' coming that will take ygi:
down: Your Timtmms! You are grown too headz strong and robust for me. ' . Suck.
Gad, I believe you would be glad to be taken down the same way ! . Pen.
I care no more for such a gillflirt," said the Jester, " than I do for thy leasings. Marry
, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou be could thy head reach the captive
Baron's girdle." " By the mass," said Peter Lanaret, " I will have one peep at this ...
Sir Walter Scott, Francis Philip Stephanoff, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1820
3
The British Drama: Operas and farces
Mrs Pen. How, gillflirt? none of your fieers! I am glad here's a husband coming
that will take you down = Your tantrums ! You are grown too headstrong and
robust for me. Suck. Gad,I believe you would be glad to be taken down the same
way !
4
A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments ...
How I gillflirt T-none of your fleets ! I am glad here's a husband coming that will
take you down : Your tantrums! You are grown too headstrong and robust for me.
* Stick. Gad, I believe you would be glad to be taken. down the same way I Mrr.
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II. of ...
In fact, I have received that fine " Marcus-Aurelius " Letter ' (Letter we have just
read) ; ' exquisite Piece, though with biting "Juvenal" qualities in it too; and have
shown it, keeping back the biting parts, to a beautiful gillflirt of the Court, ...
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 1898
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The works of Sir Walter Scott: including the Waverley novels ...
Gregory, thy sheet hath brought them between a pair of blankets.' 'I care no more
for such a gillflirt,' said the jester, 'than I do for thy leasings. Marry, thou hop-o'-my-
thumb, happy wouldst thou be could thy head reach the captive Baron's girdle.
How much has she not owed of late to the tittle-tattle of her gillflirt sister Thalia ?
In what gutters has not Macaulay raked for the brilliant bits with which he has put
together his admirable mosaic picture of England under the last two Stuarts 1 ...
James Russell Lowell, 1883
She tells ilka auld maid she yet may recover; She tells ilka gillflirt some slee
chield will move her ; Ilk dark black-e'ed beauty she spaes a wild rover, An' ilka
blue-e'ed ane, a true-hearted lover. Ilk wanton young widow she spaes a brave ...
"I care no more for such a gillflirt," said the Jester, "than I do for thy leasings.
Marry, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou be could thy head reach the
captive baron's girdle." "By the Mass, " said Peter Lanaret, " I will have one peep
at this ...
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Gillflirt, Roxb. " That silly fliskmahoy, Jenny Rintherout, has ta'en the exies," &c.
Antiquary iii. 116. V. Exies. " Fliskmahoy, gill-flirt ;" Gl. Antiq. The first syllable is
obviously from the v. Flisk, to bounce, &c. Whether the last have any connexion
with ...