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Updated: July 6, 2025
However, that's no business of mine, and it doesn't do to be too inquisitive when a man is offering you a situation of two hundred a year. It would be like looking a gift-horse in the mouth.
Here's to the man who never looks a gift-horse in the mouth. Here's to the old bird that is not to be caught with chaff. A health to those ladies who set the example of wearing British productions. May Her Majesty's Ministers ever have wisdom to plan our institutions, and energy and firmness to support them. Confusion to all demagogues.
The important question of the school appears to be somewhat left to the discretion of the new warden. This might have been made the most important part of the establishment, and the new warden, whom we trust we shall not offend by the freedom of our remarks, might have been selected with some view to his fitness as schoolmaster. But we will not now look a gift-horse in the mouth.
If there was in Cullerne some threadbare gentility, and a great deal of middle-class struggling, there was happily little actual poverty, as it is understood in great towns. Thus the poor, to whom the clothes made by the Dorcas Society were ultimately distributed, could sometimes afford to look the gift-horse in the mouth, and to lament that good material had been marred in the making.
'You shouldn't look a gift-horse in the mouth, she replied brusquely, and with tears in her eyes for one gone. 'You mistake my motive. I am like a reprieved criminal, and can scarcely believe the news. 'You shouldn't say that to me, or I shall begin to think I have been too kind, she answered, some of the archness of her manner returning.
There was no resisting this appeal; the captain, forthwith, furnished the coveted supply of powder and ball; but at the same time, put spurs to his very fine gift-horse, and the first trial of his speed was to get out of all further manifestation of friendship, on the part of the affectionate old patriarch and his insinuating family.
"You can understand that we have the note, and that it has come in the nick of time," returned Freeling. "Yes, I can see all that." "Well, don't look a gift-horse in the mouth, but spring into the saddle and take a ride. Your mother-in-law is a trump. If she will, she will, you may depend on't." Freeling was unusually excited.
But besides the engaging cordiality of Miss Wallingford's invitation, there was something about the letter that puzzled almost as much as it cheered him. "She prizes the name of Bunker, does she? Never struck me it was very ornamental; and in any case the compliment seems a trifle stretched. But, hang it! this is looking a gift-horse in the mouth.
Maldon, you may depend upon it, said Mr. Wickfield. 'Thank'ee, said the other. 'Much obliged. I don't want to look a gift-horse in the mouth, which is not a gracious thing to do; otherwise, I dare say, my cousin Annie could easily arrange it in her own way. I suppose Annie would only have to say to the old Doctor 'Meaning that Mrs.
There was no 'hoping that we should meet again in London' neither an au revoir nor a good-bye just a tacit understanding that that hour should remain isolated, accepted like a good gift without looking the gift-horse in the mouth, single, unattached to any hours before or after I don't know whether you see what I mean.... Give me a match somebody....
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