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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Do you think I've got nothing else to do with my money but scatter it to the four winds?" And I stuck my thumbs firmly in the armholes of my waistcoat, and took a dozen turns up and down my store, in order to cool off. "Confound your impudence!" I then repeated, and quietly sat down again in the old arm-chair. On the next day I had any number of calls from money-hunters.
As he spoke, Crevel, from whose hands the Baroness had released her own, had resumed his favorite attitude; both thumbs were stuck into his armholes, and he was patting his ribs with his fingers, like two flapping wings, fancying that he was thus making himself very attractive and charming. It was as much as to say, "And this is the man you would have nothing to say to!"
The prime protector of his dreams was installed beside him; her father sat there with as little motion with head thrown back and supported, with eyes apparently closed, with the fine foot that was so apt to betray nervousness at peace upon the other knee, with the unfathomable heart folded in the constant flawless freshness of the white waistcoat that could always receive in its armholes the firm prehensile thumbs.
So we sat down, and in an hour or so I was shooting at a mark to see how my rifle would do. All at once we saw this fellow it wasn't a very big one, with little bits of horns come out and stand around looking to see what the noise was about. So I just took a rest over a log, and I plugged him!" Jesse stood up straight, his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat, a very proud young boy indeed.
"Somebody'll tell something, see 'f they don't!" he said, nodding and laughing. It was now just a week from the day set for the party. Arabella, hurrying along the avenue, tried to thrust her arms into the sleeves of her jacket. "O dear! I shouldn't think this jacket had any armholes!" she cried impatiently.
It was a blue cap or bonnet, such as the Highlanders wore, and a waistcoat and short jacket of black frieze lapelled with blue. There were no arms to the waistcoat or jacket, only armholes, and on the shoulders were little wings, such as the drummers and grenadiers wore. Hector called us Amherst's angels. The buttons were of white metal.
And, notwithstanding pro-slavery statesmen at the North, who wink at the iniquity of slave holding, and pro-slavery clergymen at the North, who cry, "peace, peace" to the slaveholder, and sew "pillows to armholes," tell us, that by our honest and open rebuke of the slaveholder, we shall incur his enduring hatred; we, nevertheless, believe that "open rebuke is better than secret love," and that, in the end, we shall enjoy more Southern favor than they, whose secret love is too prudent and spurious to deal faithfully with the objects of its regard.
Eying her with some uneasiness, he cautiously inserted his thumbs in the armholes of his brocaded waistcoat, and proclaimed: "As I said before, Lou, there isn't a foreign nobleman, from the Emperor down, who is above grabbing a few million dollars.
"I'll tell you what, Wrench, this is beyond a joke," said the Mayor, who of late had had to rebuke offenders with an official air, and how broadened himself by putting his thumbs in his armholes. "To let fever get unawares into a house like this. There are some things that ought to be actionable, and are not so that's my opinion."
He sometimes appeared to be at a loss to know what to do with his arms: at one time he would thrust his thumbs into the armholes of his vest; at another he would let his arms fall into a sort of swinging motion at his sides, where he allowed, rather than used them, to toss back his coatskirts in a confused, undignified manner.
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