10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMGRUFFIN»
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
humgruffin . A hobgoblin; a repulsive person. Also, a derisive term of address:
1842, Barham: coll; ob. Prob. hobgoblin corrupted by association with griffin.
humgumptious . Knowingly deceitful or artful: low: ca 1820–70. Ex †dial.
humgumption ...
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The Poems of Browning: Volume Four: 1862 - 1871
Judge Humgruffin: probably based on Judge John Worth Edmonds (1799–1874),
who was Judge of the first New York Circuit and later of the New York Supreme
Court: in 1853 he published Spiritualism, in which he declared his belief in the ...
John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Joseph Phelan, 2014
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Robert Browning: Selected Poems
“Well, Judge Humgruffin, what's your verdict, sir? You, hardest head in the United
States,— 455 Did you detect a cheat here? Wait! Let's see! Just an experiment
first, for candour's sake! I'll try and cheat you, Judge! The table tilts: Is it I that
move ...
John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Joseph Phelan, 2013
headed Judge Humgruffin type. Silence ensues for a little; for of all the persons to
expose a fraud, your Judge Humgruffin is the ablest. Humgruffin tries his best and
— fails. What happens then? Victory, and victory redoubled; for if Humgruffin ...
Harvey Carson Grumbine, 1914
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A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
How did it happen that gross Humbug grabbed . . Hardly that Humbug, whom thy
soul aroints, . . . : Humgruffin. "Well, Judge Humgruffin, what's your verdict, sir ? "
Judge Humgruffin, our most distinguished man. . . Humid. "Under a humid finger;
...
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The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels
The Demoniac crowd In an instant seem'd cowed ; Not one of the crew volunteer'
d a reply, All shrunk from _the glance of that keen-flashing eye, Save one horrid
Humgruffin, who seem'd by his talk, And the airs he assumed, to be Cock of the ...
Richard Harris Barham, 1842
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The Ingoldsby Legends, Or, Mirth and Marvels
The Demoniac crowd In an instant seem'd cow'd ; Not one of the crew volunteer'd
a reply, All shrunk from the glance of that keen flashing eye, Save one horrid
Humgruffin, who seem'd by his talk, And the airs he assumed, to be Cock of the ...
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In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances
“Judge Humgruffin, our most distinguished man, “Your uncle was a tailor, and
your wife “Thought to have married Miggs, missed him, hit you!”— Do you, sir,
though you see him twice a-week'! “No,” you reply, “what use retailing it! “Why
should ...
The Demoniac crowd In an instant seem'd cowed, Not one of the crew volunteer'd
a reply, All shrunk from the glance of that keen-flashing eye, Save one horrid
Humgruffin, who seem'd by his talk, And the airs he assumed, to be Cock of the ...
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A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and ...
... though mild, "Come! I'll trouble you just to hand over that child!" The Demoniac
crowd In an instant seemed cowed; Not one of the crew volunteered a reply, All
shrunk from the glance of that keen-flashing eye, Save one horrid Humgruffin, ...
Charles Dudley Warner, 2008
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