pink-an-eye

Updated: May 18, 2025

Lady Fortune has played me a scurvy trick; but may she not to-morrow play as roguish a one to the Sheepfaced old Chamber Lord with the golden Key, or any other smart Pink-an-eye Dandiprat that hangs about the Court? The Spoke which now is highest in her Wheel may, when she gives it the next good Twist, be undermost as Nock.

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...