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It's your husband must go to that expinse, my precious, if he chooses, twingling and tweedling, instead of the puddings and apple pies that you'll settle betwix yees; and in the honeymoon, no doubt, you've cunning enough to compass that, and more.
My maternal grandmother was a little, round, old lady, with a ruddy, healthy tinge on her face. She lived in Queen Street in a house dated 1619 over the doorway. There was a pleasant garden at the back, and the scent of a privet hedge in it has never to this day left me. In one of the rooms was a spinet. The strings were struck with quills, and gave a thin, twangling, or rather twingling sound.
Marprelate now appears "with a wit worn into the socket, twingling and pinking like the snuff of a candle; quantum mutatus ab illo! how unlike the knave he was before, not for malice but for sharpness. The hogshead was even come to the hauncing, and nothing could be drawne from him but the dregs."
Now and then the booming of gongs floated off to us, and the squeaking of a curious kind of pipe; while from the boats close in shore the twangling, twingling sound of the native guitars was very plain from one in particular, where there was evidently some kind of entertainment, it being lit up with a number of lanterns of grotesque shapes.
He made a dash at the monkey; but the latter was up in the shrouds and out of danger in the twingling of an eye. "Land ho!" "Which way?" "Due south." Harkaway had a glass up in a crack. "That's right," he said. "Gentlemen all, allow me to introduce you to Australia." Yes, there was the continent of Australia.
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