"Bagman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one example of this. You must know that, in the evening, I sometimes collect a few together, and try to get them to tell their stories. Little comes of it in general but interruptions. But, one night, a melancholy Bagman responded in good set terms, and all in a moment; one would have thought I had put a torch to a barrel of powder, he went off so quickly, in ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... forget the story of a fine young Irish gentleman, as told by the one-eyed bagman to Mr. Pickwick and ...
— Charles Dickens and Music • James T. Lightwood
... man I ever heard talk as you've been doing about his own country," said the bagman, getting tired and impatient of being sat on all the time. "'Lives there a man with a soul so dead, who never said—to—to himself'... ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... insidious and dangerous attentions, are not by him for ever exalted into heroes, redeeming their pleasant vices by a host of high and chivalrous qualities. On the contrary, the apparently easy-going husband often proves a smart fellow, and thorough Tartar—the brilliant lover an emancipated bagman, or contemptible chevalier d'industrie. Of this we have an example in "Le Gendre," in some respects one of the most objectionable of De Bernard's novels, certainly not well suited for a birth-day present to ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various
... a Saracen maiden, Brunette, statuesque, The reverse of grotesque; Her pa was a bagman at Aden, Her ...
— Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs • W. S. Gilbert |
