sheeney

Updated: June 21, 2025

I scarcely know whether The Fighting Sheeney made more of a nuisance of himself during his decumbiture or during the period which followed it which period houses an astonishing number of fights, rows, bullyings, etc. He must have had a light case for he was cured in no time, and on everyone's back as usual.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room

And now I must chronicle the famous duel which took place between The Zulu's compatriot, The Young Pole, and that herebefore introduced pimp, The Fighting Sheeney; a duel which came as a climax to a vast deal of teasing on the part of The Young Pole who, as previously remarked, had not learned his lesson from Bill The Hollander with the thoroughness which one might have expected of him.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room

From the day that The Young Pole emerged from cabinot he was our friend. The blague had been at last knocked out of him, thanks to Un Mangeur de Blanc, as the little Machine-Fixer expressively called The Fighting Sheeney. "Bon, eh? Bien fait, eh?" and a few days later asked us for money, even hinting that he would be pleased to become our special protector.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room

Well, I will leave him for the nonce; in fact, I will leave him until I come to The Young Pole, who wore black puttees and spoke of The Zulu as "mon ami" the Young Pole whose troubles I will recount in connection with the second Delectable Mountain Itself. "Ta mome. Alice." and when I had read it sticking his map up into my face, The Fighting Sheeney said with emphasis: "No travailler moi.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room

Would to Heaven we had got rid of the slave as well as the master but unfortunately The Fighting Sheeney couldn't afford to follow his lord's example. So he went on making a nuisance of himself, trying hard to curry favour with B. and me, getting into fights and bullying everyone generally.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room

Bill the Hollander, whom we had grown to like, whereas at first we were inclined to fear him, Bill the Hollander who washed some towels and handkerchiefs and what-nots for us and turned them a bright pink, Bill the Hollander who had tried so hard to teach The Young Pole the lesson which he could only learn from The Fighting Sheeney, left us about a week after la commission.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room