 I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cipher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if she were of a kickable substance, than either honored or humored.  A History of American Literature - Page 228by Moses Coit Tyler - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Lauren Berlant - 1991 - 277 lehte
...See Ward, Simple Cobler, 24-32, on the fashion excesses of the female aristocracy. "I truly confesse it is beyond the ken of my understanding to conceive, how those women . . . disfigure themselves with such exotick garbes, as ... transclouts them into gantbar-geese, ill-shapenshotten-shel... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 lehte
...what the nudiustertian23 fashion of the Court; with egge to be in it in all haste, whatever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of Nothing, fitter to be kickt, if shee were of kickable substance, than either... | |
 | Pascal Covici - 1997 - 252 lehte
...week: what the nudiustertian fashion of the Court; with egge to be in it in all haste, whatever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of Nothing, fitter to be kickt, if shee were of a kickable substance, than either... | |
 | Ford - 1999 - 412 lehte
...fashion of the Court; I meane the very newest: with egge to be in it with all haste, whatever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the...epitome of nothing, fitter to be kicked, if she were a kickable substance than either honor'd or humor'd." And of the practice among men of wearing long... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 lehte
...week, what the nuduistertian fashion of the court, with edge to be in it all haste, whatever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the produtt of a quarter of a cipher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kicked, if she were of kickable... | |
 | 1927 - 382 lehte
...nugiperous Gentledame inquire what dress the Queen is in this week, what the nudius tertian of the Court, I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if she were of a kickable substance, than either... | |
 | 1916 - 894 lehte
...fashion of the Court; I mean the very newest; with egge to be in it all hast, whatever it be; I look upon her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kicked, if she were of a kickable substance, than either... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1882 - 510 lehte
...learning, as well a? a profound lawyer and statesman." Upon a woman fond of dress, he wrote. " I look upon her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kick't, if she were of a kickable substance, than either... | |
 | 1857 - 602 lehte
...help them with a little wit, and nobody relieves them," — a style of womanhood which he looks upon as " the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if she were of a kickable substance, than either... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1923 - 490 lehte
...had dressed with the simplicity of a barbaric woman. As it was, he felt that the lady of fashion was "the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of Nothing" ; and he had an equal contempt for tailors who "spend their lives in... | |
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