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Updated: August 4, 2024
'Of course it struck you! and let me tell you I was devilish lucky not to strike myself. When I entered this apartment I shone "with all the pomp and prodigality of brandy and water," as the poet Gray has in another place expressed it. Powerful bard, Gray! but a niminy- piminy creature, afraid of a petticoat and a bottle not a man, sir, not a man!
She went and dropped her curtsey at the parlour door, and in a miminy piminy voice said she was come to make her submission, and would he forgive her, and give her another trial? Her penitence, after one or two convulsive efforts, ended in a very fair flow of tears. Mr. Hardie shrugged his shoulders, and asked Jane if the girl had ever been saucy to her.
Caddis represented his political opinions; but here was this cur of a Caddis whineing his niminy note from his piminy nob, when he was asked for his hearty echo of the praises of this jolly good fellow come to waken the neighbourhood, to be a blessing, a blazing hearth, a fall of manna: and thank the Lord for him, you desertdog!
O the Truthful, O the Beautiful, O Modesty, O Benevolence, O Pudor, O Mores, O Blushing Shame, O Namby Pamby each with your respective capital letters to your honoured names! O Niminy, O Piminy! how shall I dare for to go for to say that a young man ever was a young man? No doubt, dear young lady, I am calumniating Mr. Warrington according to my heartless custom.
If, on the contrary, she had been thrown into the society of a lady who so far honoured England as to talk as some people do in England, we had every A turned into E, and every U into O, while she minced her words as if she had been saying "niminy piminy" since she first began to talk, and honestly believed no human being could ever have told she had been born west of St. George's Channel.
You are as rare as I am, and if there is anything you would take from me, I would make more than one exchange for the mere niceness of your fibre the feeling you have for fine shades of morality and taste all that makes you a lady, my dear." "Such niminy piminy things," said Alicia, contradicting the light of satisfaction in her eyes.
You are as rare as I am, and if there is anything you would take from me, I would make more than one exchange for the mere niceness of your fibre the feeling you have for fine shades of morality and taste all that makes you a lady, my dear." "Such niminy piminy things," said Alicia, contradicting the light of satisfaction in her eyes.
Caddis represented his political opinions; but here was this cur of a Caddis whineing his niminy note from his piminy nob, when he was asked for his hearty echo of the praises of this jolly good fellow come to waken the neighbourhood, to be a blessing, a blazing hearth, a fall of manna: and thank the Lord for him, you desertdog!
"Well, the pursuivants got back to Cockermouth with their lives, but not much else; and reported to the magistrates that the wild Irish themselves were little piminy maids compared to the folk they had visited that day.
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